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IJTERARY INTELLIGENCE .. 1806 BOOKS AND RXJMOUBS OF BOOKS 1806
NOTES AND NEWS 1808 CONTINENTAL NOTES 1811
IiOBD CHESTEBFJELD'S LETTEBS ., 1812 THE PUBLIC UBBABIES AND THE PUBLISHEBS . . 1813
SOCIETY OF ARTS ... 1813 A SCOTTISH NATIONAL LIBBABY 1813
TBADE CHANGES 1814 IN MEMOBIAM f 1814
BETVTEWS , & c 1815
MESSBS . SMITH , SON & DOWNES'NEW ALBUMS .. 1822
r INDEX TO BOOKS PUBLISHED IN" GBEAT BBITAIN BETWEEN DECEMBER 2 & 16 1823
BOOKS PUBLISHED IN GREAT BBITAIN FROM DECEMBER 2 TO 16 1826
AMERICAN NEW BOOKS 1835 NEW BOOKS AND BOOKS LATELY
PUBLISHED 1837 MISCELLA 1 TEOUS 1848—1860
BUSINESS CARDS 1853 , 1854 SITUATION WANTED 1855
h ASSISTANTS WANTED 185 5 BOOKS FOB SALE 1856
BOOKS WANTED TO PUBCHASB 1856
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St . Dunstan ' s House , E . C ., December 17 , 1889 .
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npIDINGS of greater loss to literature have JL not been heard in England since Carlyle left us than the news which last week was
flashed along the wires from Venice . Yet there is much to soften regret both as regards
the moment and the manner of Robert Browning ' s departure . He has died in
peacefulness in the fulness of his years and of his fame ; those he cherished most were with him
at the end , and death surprised him in a land which , with England , shared his heart , a land
under whose blue skies the happiest years of his life were spent , and one in which the
gifted woman whom he ' loved long since and lost awhile ' sleeps her last sleep . To Robert
Browning himself , death cannot have been otherwise than gain , and therefore it would be
sheer affectation to utter lamentations in presence of the rounded beauty of a life whose
lofty tasks were worthily accomplished . Browning has bequeathed to his country
and to the world the imperishable fruits of his genius . He was a great creative artist , a
moralist , and a metaphysician in the realm of song , who looked with kindly eyes at humanity ,
even while he probed its secret heart . Some have called him an optimist , and others have
regarded him in a very different light ; it seems to us that , in his interpretation of the
great problems of life and destiny , he rather held the golden mean , or , if lie ever swerved
from it , it was always in the pursuit of some larger hope . There is truth in the assertion
that in the art of Robert Browning almost invariably the evolution of incident is sacrificed
to the revelation , of character ; indeed , i t may be added that far . too frequently the poet
'I delays the progress of the story which he is » .:.... ^ ~ -- ' . .
1 relating , in order to discuss , with the subtlety | (
of one of the old Schoolmen , some involved j case of conscience , or some startling exhibition j
of life and character . In his avowed determi- j nation to wed * sound with sense , poetry with
thought , ' he taxes to the utmost the intelligence of his readers , and even occasionally I
lands himself in an almost hopeless obscurity jj of expression . Yet Mr . Gosse has saidwith , 'j
j ustice , th _ at Browning _ ' s activity of min , d is , | the key to what seems odd in his language , |
and the reader who desires to enjoy his poetry must learn to think rapidly also . His method
is introspective and analytical , his sympathies are as wide as they are exaU ^ d , whilst the
tenderness which lurks in his lyrics is only less conspicuous than the intellectual strength
and bold imagination which dominate them . We will not go so far as to say with Dr .
Furnivall that * Browning is . the strongest , man who has written verse since Milton , ' but
of this much , at least , we are certain—he has widened the province of poetry , and has
ref lected on some of the most abstruse problems of the age the transfiguring light of a great
imaginative intellect . 1 IOI
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 16, 1889, page 1806, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_16121889/page/4/
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