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1913 · PDF PAGE 3

The Writing On the Ground

THE WRITING ON THE GROUND. Surely anything short of Honesty in Love and Friendship is intolerable—and unthinkable—un- forgivable. Dishonesty in business and politics we are, alas, used to by daily association, but the meanest money- grabber has some respect for Friendship. Yet we have all recently been shocked by a striking and terrible example of the lowest depths ever reached by any human being in meanness and disloyalty to afriend; that friend unable to defend himself, gone beyond these petty strifes and falsehoods. We are left to resent it …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 7

The Writing On the Ground

…u and I are friends, and that King Death Is friend of both, and will not harvest us Before the time of our ripe harvest comes."’ We have surely said enough to establish clearly the abominable character of this book. We are sure that the moment it is brought to the notice of Lord Alfred Douglas he will take the proper steps to crush the perpetrator. The title-page discloses, as might be expected, both the title of the book and the name of the author. The former is “ Poémes,”, and the latter is Lord Alfred Douglas.

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