_authorised_ English edition. This of course does not preclude the
chance that some of the American editions are authorised, and that some
of Wilde's genuine works even are included in the pirated editions.

I am indebted to the Editors and Proprietors of the Queen for leave to
reproduce the article on 'English Poetesses'; to the Editor and
Proprietors of the Sunday Times for the article entitled 'Art at Willis's
Rooms'; and to Mr. William Waldorf Astor for those from the Pall Mall
Gazette.

ROBERT ROSS




THE TOMB OF KEATS


(Irish Monthly, July 1877.)

As one enters Rome from the Via Ostiensis by the Porta San Paolo, the
first object that meets the eye is a marble pyramid which stands close at
hand on the left.

There are many Egyptian obelisks in Rome--tall, snakelike spires of red
sandstone, mottled with strange writings, which remind us of the pillars
of flame which led the children of Israel through the desert away from
the land of the Pharaohs; but more wonderful than these to look upon is
this gaunt, wedge-shaped pyramid standing here in this Italian city,
unshattered amid the ruins and wrecks of time, looking older than the