There is something rather tawdry about Mr. Oscar Wilde's Art
and Decoration, c book of extracts from review articles and miscellanies: -..och Messrs. Methuen have just published (68. 6d. ne. A great many of his views strike the reader as merely Ruskin or Morrie and water, and his epigrams have not kept particularly well. Still, if the reader has patience, he will find scattered here and them a few things that are worth reading, even if he does not agree with them : "As regard archaeology then, avoid it altogether ; archaeology is merely the science of 'flaking excuses for bad art ; it is the rock on which many a Young artist founders and shipwrecks." "In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer." His account 5 Ruskin and the unfinished road from Upper to Lower Hinksey Is smutting.
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