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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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      The Dean of Gloucester * * is reported to be

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  • Citation
    • 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/