Archer has fortunately lived to see a good many Of his judgments justified, and beyond emphasising his interesting anticipation of the eventual place Salome was to occupy in musical composition, I need pay no further tribute to the brilliant perception of an honoured contemporary. The Times, while depreciating the drama, gave its author credit for a tour de force in being capable of writing a French play for Madame Bernhardt, and this drew from Wilde the following letter, which appeared in the Times on March 2ud, 1893.