He accuses the others of having changed me." I may publish here part of a letter of a prison warder which Mr.Stuart Mason reproduced in his excellent little book on Oscar Wilde.

He says: "No more beautiful life had any man lived, no more beautiful life could any man live than Oscar Wilde lived during the short period I knew him in prison.

He wore upon his face an eternal smile; sunshine was on his face, sunshine of some sort must have been in his heart.

People say he was not sincere: he was the very soul of sincerity when I knew him.

If he did not continue that life after he left prison, then the forces of evil must have been too strong for him.