OSCAR WILDE DEAD.

APOSTLE OF AESTHETICISM AND LATER-DAY CONVICT.

PASSES AWAY IN OBSCURITY.

Lived in Loneliness Since Emerging from Prison and Sailed Under an Assumed Name—Visited the United States Nearly Twenty Years Ago and Had a Considerable Vogue.

Paris, Dec. 1.—Oscar Wilde is dead. He expired in an obscure house in the Latin quarter, from meningitis and was received into the Catholic church on his death bed.

Wilde had been living in a hotel in Rue des Beaux Arts where he had been known for several months under the name of Manmoth [sic].

Wilde was born in Dublin in 1856, the son of Sir William Robert Wills Wilde, a surgeon, and of Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde, a woman of letters. He was named Oscar Frugal [sic] O'Flahertie [Wills] Wilde. He studied at Trinity college, Dublin, where he attained the Berkley gold medal for Greek; took the Newdigate prize for English verse at Oxford in 1874; studied at Magdalen college and graduated in 1877. He went to London two years later and became the apostle of the aesthetic movement and was satirized under the name Portlethwaite [sic] in Punch. He lectured on art subjects in the United States in 1882 and subsequently in London and Paris and was condemned in 1895 to penal servitude for two years for infamous conduct. He has been out three years and lost in obscurity. Very recently he has been credited with the authorship of a notable play which has attained great success abroad. He published his Poems in 1880. Then came The Picture of Dorian Gray, a novel, The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888), Inventions [sic], essays (1891) Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories (1891), the tragedies Guido Ferranti (1890), the Duchess of Padua and a number of comedies, including Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, and The Importance of Being Earnest. His aestheticism had a sort of blue-glass vogue.