National Defence College, India | National Defence Academy | Australian Defence Force | Ulster Defence Association | National Defence College | National Defence Academy (India) | cosmetics | coastal defence ship | Secretary of State for Defence | Uganda People's Defence Force | Defence Science and Technology Organisation | Australian Defence Force Academy | Jane's Defence Weekly | Defence League | Croatian Defence Council | Cosmetics | Botswana Defence Force | Strategic Defence Review | Provisional National Defence Council | Jabot Cosmetics | English Defence League | Defence Evaluation and Research Agency | South African Defence Force | Slovenian Territorial Defence | Papua New Guinea Defence Force | Kenya Defence Forces | Finnish coastal defence ship Ilmarinen | Defence College of Management and Technology | South African National Defence Force | Shanghai Defence Force |
Beerbohm wrote this satire on Oscar Wilde in late 1893 or early 1894 for publication in the first number of The Yellow Book, but it was held over to make way for Beerbohm's essay A Defence of Cosmetics, which appeared in that journal in April 1894.