Calgary Herald - Friday, May 10, 1895
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THE HERALD.
The humiliating exposures of the police court in the Oscar Wilde case have confirmed the suspicion. Long held by some, that Wilde’s brilliant but padded story "The Picture of Dorian Grey," was a confession. Hallward asks the hero: "Why is your friendship so fatal to young men? There was that wretched boy in the Guards who committed suicide. You were his great friend. There was Sir Harry Ashton, who had to leave England with a tarnished name. You and he were inseparable. What about Adrian Shingle-man and his dreadful end? What about Lord Kent’s only son and his career? I met his father yesterday; he seemed broken with shame and sorrow. What about the young Duke of Perth? What sort of life has he got now? What gentleman would associate with him? Dorian, Dorian, your reputation is infamous!" How a man could pen such a confession and yet continue to practice the preposterous vice is one of the mysteries of perverted human nature that is past finding out.