Chapter XXIII: Prologue: TO "LA SAISIAZ," reprinted as "Pisgah-Sights," III., is a (3)

He finds his answer in the special relation of this art to the life of man. Music resembles painting and poetry in the essential characteristic that her province is not Mind but Soul--the swaying sea of emotion which underlies the firm ground of attainable, if often recondite, fact. All three have this in common with the activities of Mind that they strive for the same result; they aim at recording feeling as science registers facts. The two latter in some measure attain this end, because they deal with those definite moments of the soul's experience which share the nature of fact. But music dredges deeper in the emotional sea. She draws forth and embodies the more mysterious, more evanescent, more fluid realities of the soul's life; and so, effecting more than the sister arts, she yet succeeds less. Her forms remain; the spirit ebbs away from them. As, however, Mr. Browning's own experience has shown, the departed spirit may return--

"... Off they steal--
How gently, dawn-doomed phantoms! back come they
Full-blooded with new crimson of broad day--
Passion made palpable once more." (P. 232.)

The revived passion may breathe under the name of another man; it may stir again in the utterance of one dead and forgotten; and Mr. Browning, borrowing the language of chemistry, invokes the reactive processes through which its many-coloured flamelets may spring to life.[136] He then passes by an insensible--because to him very natural--transition from the realities of feeling to those of thought, and to the underlying truth from which both series derive: and combats the idea that in thought, any more than in feeling, the present can disprove the past, the once true reveal itself as delusion. Time--otherwise growth--widens the range as it complicates the necessities of musical, _i.e._ emotional expression. It destroys the enfolding fictions which shield without concealing the earlier stages of intellectual truth. But the emotions were in existence before music began; and Truth was potentially "at full" within us when as it were reborn to grow and bud and blossom for the mind of man.[137] Therefore, he has said, addressing Avison's March, "Blare it forth, bold C Major!" and "Therefore," he continues, in a swift return of fancy:--

"... Bang the drums,
Blow the trumps, Avison! March-motive? That's
Truth which endures resetting. Sharps and flats,
Lavish at need, shall dance athwart thy score
When ophicleide and bombardon's uproar
Mate the approaching trample, even now
Big in the distance--or my ears deceive--
Of federated England, fitly weave
March-music for the future!" (P. 237.)

The musical transformation is for a moment followed back to the days of Elizabethan plain-song, and then arrested at those of Avison, where he may be imagined as joining chorus with Bach in celebrating the struggle for English liberty. The closing stanzas are written to the music of Avison's March, which is also given[138] at the end of the poem, and throws a helpful light on its more technical parts.

FUST AND HIS FRIENDS is based on a version of the Faust legend which identifies the inventor of printing with Dr. Faust, and contains allusions to some of the incidents of Goethe's double poem: the magical drinking bout of the first part, and the appearance of the Grecian Helen in the second; but whereas the popular tradition makes Fust's great discovery the fruit of his alliance with the powers of Evil, Mr. Browning represents it as an act of atonement for the figurative devil-worship which was involved in a disorderly and ostentatious life. Fust has by his own admission sinned to this extent.[139] He has obeyed the father of lies. He has also accepted with thankfulness the chance of redeeming his soul by a signal service rendered to the cause of Truth. The process of engraving on gold, furtively witnessed in a Tuscan workshop, has suggested to him the manufacture of metallic types, and he has been for years secluded with the conception of his printing-press, and glowing visions of that winged word which should one day fly forth at his command. Complacent ignorance and stupidity have buzzed freely about him as he sat unaided and alone in what Mr. Browning poetically depicts as the prolonged travail of a portentous mental birth; and, as we are led to imagine, much well-meant remonstrance and advice rebounded from his closed door. But at the moment in question the door is open, for the work of Fust is complete. Seven "Friends" present themselves prepared to lecture him for his good and for that of their city (Mayence) which is endangered by his compact with the Devil; and the ensuing intensely humorous colloquy supplies him with the fitting occasion for distributing specimens of his new art and displaying the mechanism through which its apparent magic is achieved. He then pours forth his soul in an impassioned utterance, half soliloquy, half prayer, in which gratitude for his own redemption tempers the sense of triumph in the world-wide intellectual deliverance he has been privileged to effect, and becomes a tribute of adoration to that Absolute of Creative Knowledge, the law of which he has obeyed; which stirs in the unconsciousness of the ore and plant, and impels man to Its realization step by step in the ever-receding, ever-present vision of his own ignorance.

He owns, however, when the talk is resumed, that his happiness is not free from cloud: since the wings which he has given to truth will also aid the diffusion of falsehood; and the note of humour returns to the situation when this contingency asserts itself in the mind of some of the "friends." These worthies have passed through the descending scale of feeling proper to such persons on such an occasion. They have received Fust's invention as diabolical--as wonderful--as very simple after all; and now the fact stares them in the face that, printing being so simple, the Hussite may publish his heresies as well as the Churchman his truth, and the old sure remedy of burning him and his talk together will no longer avail. One of the two Divines on whom this impresses itself had indeed "been struck by it from the first."

The poem concludes with a joke on the name of Huss, which (I am told) is the Bohemian equivalent for "goose," and his reported prophecy of the advent and the triumph of Luther: which prophecy Fust re-echoes.[140]

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 121: We must remark that these arguments are not directed against Atheism and its naturalistic philosophy, which supplies, in Mr. Browning's judgment, a consistent, if erroneous, solution of the problem. They only attack the position of those who would retain the belief in a personal God, and yet divest Him of every quality which makes such a Being thinkable.]

[Footnote 122: It has been wrongly inferred from the passage in question that Mr. Browning admits the pretensions of science to solve the problems of the universe.]

[Footnote 123: The "goddess-sent plague" woven by Lachesis into the destiny of Admetus was a vengeance of Artemis which befell him on the day of his marriage. He had slighted her by omitting the usual sacrifice, and in punishment of this she sent a crowd of serpents to meet him in the nuptial chamber; but Apollo effected a reconciliation between them.]

[Footnote 124: He had, as a young man, so great an admiration for one of Bartoli's works, "De' Simboli trasportati al Morale," that when he travelled he always carried it with him.]

[Footnote 125: Her reply was that if she possessed any influence over M. de Lorraine she would never use it to make him do anything so contrary to his honour and to his interests; she already sufficiently reproached herself for the marriage to which his friendship for her had impelled him; and would rather be "Marianne" to the end of her days than become Duchess on such conditions The reply has been necessarily modified in Mr. Browning's more poetic rendering of the scene]

[Footnote 126: Indented,--for want of writing materials,--with a key on the wainscot of his cell.]

[Footnote 127: Created Lord Melcombe a year before his death: sufficiently known by his diary from March, 1748, to Feb., 1761. See its character in the Preface to the original edition by his relation, Henry Penruddocke Wyndham, 1784. Other notices will be found in "Edgeworth on Education," Belsham's "George II.," and Hawkins' "Life of Johnson."]

[Footnote 128: Furini is also honourably mentioned in Pilkington's "Dictionary of Painters," revised by Fuseli, and till the middle of the present century the authoritative work on the subject. It is stated in the edition of 1805 that "many of his paintings are in Florence, which are deemed to add honour to the valuable collections of the nobility of that city."]

[Footnote 129: The allusion in vol. xvi. p. 195, to the old artificer who could make men "believe" instead of merely "fancy" that what he presented to them was real, refers especially to the Greek painter Zeuxis; but it is suggested by the generally realistic character of Greek art.]

[Footnote 130: Described at p. 253 and onwards under the heading "Painter-like Beauty in the Open Air."]

[Footnote 131: The last line and a half of the eighth stanza was directly suggested by the tragedy of Æschylus; the thunderstorm by another version of the Promethean myth.]

[Footnote 132: See Shelley's translation from Moschus.]

[Footnote 133: Battle of Arbela.]

[Footnote 134: These lines were published in 1886 in the little volume entitled "The New Amphion."]

[Footnote 135: Organist of Newcastle about 1750; author of "An Essay on Musical Expression" and other works.]

[Footnote 136: The "Relfe" spoken of in this connection was Mr. Browning's music-master: a learned contrapuntist.]

[Footnote 137: In interpreting this passage I have somewhat exceeded the letter, but only to emphasize the spirit of Mr. Browning's words.]

[Footnote 138: From an MS. copy formerly in the possession of Mr. Browning's father.]

[Footnote 139: The wealth to which he alludes was justly imputed to him, as the real Fust was a goldsmith's son.]

[Footnote 140: The relation of John Fust to the popular legend is pleasantly set forth in Mr. Sutherland Edwards' little book, "The Faust Legend: Its Origin and Development."]

NOTE.

The following note shows Mr. Browning in a more pronounced attitude towards the opponents of the new Greek spelling than does that which, by his desire, I inserted in my first edition; but the last mood was in this case only a natural development of the first:--

"I have just noticed in this month's 'Nineteenth Century' that it is inquired by a humorous objector to the practice of spelling (under exceptional conditions) Greek proper names as they are spelt in Greek literature, why the same principle should not be adopted by 'Ægyptologists, Hebraists, Sanscrittists, Accadians, Moabites, Hittites, and Cuneiformists?' Adopt it, by all means, whenever the particular language enjoyed by any fortunate possessor of these shall, like Greek, have been for about three hundred years insisted upon in England as an acquisition of paramount importance, at school and college, for every aspirant to distinction in learning, even at the cost of six or seven years' study--a sacrifice considered well worth making for even an imperfect acquaintance with 'the most perfect language in the world.' Further, it will be adopted whenever the letters substituted for those in ordinary English use shall do no more than represent to the unscholarly what the scholar accepts without scruple when, for the hundredth time, he reads the word which, for once, he has occasion to write in English, and which he concludes must be as euphonic as the rest of a language renowned for euphony. And, finally, the practice will be adopted whenever the substituted letters effect no sort of organic change so as to jostle the word from its pride of place in English verse or prose. 'Themistokles' fits in quietly everywhere, with or without the _k_: but in a certain poetical translation I remember, by a young friend, of the Anabasis, beginning thus felicitously, '_Cyrus the Great and Artaxerxes (Whose temper bloodier than a Turk's is) Were children both of the mild, pious, And happy monarch, King Darius_,'--who fails to see that, although a correct 'Kuraush' may pass, yet 'Darayavush' disturbs the metre as well as the rhyme? It seems, however, that 'Themistokles' may be winked at: not so the 'harsh and subversive Kirke.' But let the objector ask somebody with no knowledge to subvert, how he supposes 'Circe' is spelt in Greek, and the answer will be 'with a soft _c_.' Inform him that no such letter exists, and he guesses, 'Then with _s_, if there be anything like it' Tell him that, to eye and ear equally, his own _k_ answers the purpose, and you have, at all events, taught him that much, if little enough--and why does he live unless to learn a little?"

"R. B."

_Jan. 4, 1866._

A CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BROWNING'S WORKS.

1833. PAULINE; A FRAGMENT OF A CONFESSION. 8vo. Saunders and Otley, 1833. Dated at the end "Richmond, Oct. 22, 1832." Reprinted in the six vol. editions of the _Poetical Works_, 1868, and later. Also reprinted from the original edition and edited by T. J. Wise, 1886.

1834. SONNET, "Eyes calm beside thee (Lady couldst thou know!") Dated Aug. 17, 1834, and signed "Z." _Monthly Repository_, vol. viii., N.S., 1834, p. 712. Not reprinted by Mr. Browning.

1835. PARACELSUS. By Robert Browning. 8vo. Effingham Wilson, 1835. Reprinted in _Poems_, 2 vols. 1849, and in _Poetical Works_ later, but without Preface, dated 15th March, 1835.

1835. THE KING. "A king lived long ago." 54 lines signed "Z," in the _Monthly Repository_, vol. ix., N.S., 1835, pp. 707-8. Afterwards given in _Pippa Passes_ (sc. I, act iii.) with six additional lines.

1836. PORPHYRIA. "The rain set early in to-night." Sixty lines signed "Z," in _Monthly Repository_, vol. x., N.S., 1836, pp. 43-4. Afterwards appeared in _Bells and Pomegranates_ under the heading "Madhouse Cells II." Was called "Porphyria's Lover" in the _Works_, 1863 and after.

1836. JOHANNES AGRICOLA. "There's Heaven above; and night by night." Sixty lines signed "Z," in _Monthly Repository_, vol. x., N.S., 1836, pp. 45-6. Reprinted in _Bells and Pomegranates_ under the heading "Madhouse Cells I."

1836. LINES. "Still ailing, wind? wilt be appeased or no?" Six stanzas signed "Z," in the _Monthly Repository_, vol. x., N.S., 1836, pp. 270-71. Reappeared in _Dramatis Personæ_ (1864) as the first six stanzas of section vi. of "James Lee."

1837. STRAFFORD: AN HISTORICAL TRAGEDY. By Robert Browning. 8vo. Longmans, 1837. Acted at Covent Garden Theatre, May 1, 1837. Reprinted without preface in _Poetical Works_, 863, and later. Acting edition, for the North London Collegiate School for Girls, 1882, 8vo. An edition (including preface of 1837) with notes and preface by Miss E. H. Hickey, and introduction by S. R. Gardiner, LL.D., 1884, 8vo.

1840. SORDELLO. By Robert Browning. 8vo. E. Moxon, 1840. Revised edition with prefatory letter to J. Milsand, in _Poetical Works_, 3 vols. 1863, and later.

1841-6. BELLS AND POMEGRANATES. Eight numbers in wrappers, Rl. 8vo., 1841-46, as follows:--

1841. No. 1. PIPPA PASSES. By Robert Browning. London, E. Moxon, 1841.

1842. No. 2. KING VICTOR AND KING CHARLES. By Robert Browning. London, E. Moxon, 1842.

1842. No. 3. DRAMATIC LYRICS. By Robert Browning, London, E. Moxon, 1842.

Contents:

_Cavalier Times._ I. _Marching Along_, p. 3.--II. _Give a
Rouse_, p. 3.--III. _My Wife Gertrude_, p. 3. [III.
afterwards "Boot and Saddle."]

_Italy and France._ I. _Italy_ ["My last Duchess."]--II.
_France_ ["Count Gismond"], p. 4.

_Camp and Cloister._ I. _Camp_ (_French_), p. 5.--II.
_Cloister (Spanish)_, p. 6.

_In a Gondola_, p. 7.

_Artemis Prologuizes_, p. 9.

_Waring._ I. "What's becomes of Waring?"--II. "When I last saw
Waring," p. 10.

_Queen Worship._ I. _Rudel and the Lady of Tripoli._--II.
_Cristina_, p. 12.

_Madhouse Cells._ I. _Johannes Agricola_ [of 1836.] II.
_Porphyria_ [of 1836], p. 13.

_Through the Metidja to Abd-el-Kadr_, p. 14.

_The Pied Piper of Hamelin_, p. 14.

1843. No. 4. THE RETURN OF THE DRUSES. A Tragedy in five acts. By Robert Browning. London, E. Moxon, 1843.

1843. No. 5. A BLOT IN THE 'SCUTCHEON. A Tragedy in three acts. By Robert Browning. London, E. Moxon, 1843. Acted at Drury Lane Theatre, Feb. 11, 1843.

1844. No. 6. COLOMBE'S BIRTHDAY; A Play in five acts. By Robert Browning. London, E. Moxon, 1844. Acted at the Haymarket, April 25, 1853.

1845. No. 7. DRAMATIC ROMANCES AND LYRICS By Robert Browning. London, E. Moxon, 1845.

Contents:

_How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix_, p. 3.

_Pictor Ignotus._ _Florence_, 15--, p. 4.

_Italy in England._ [Called "The Italian in England" in the
_Poems_, 1849], p. 4.

_England in Italy._ [Called "The Englishman in Italy" in
_Poems_, 1849], p. 5.

_The Lost Leader_, p. 8.

_The Lost Mistress_, p. 8.

_Home Thoughts from Abroad._ I. "Oh, to be in England."--II.
"Here's to Nelson's Memory." [Put after _Claret and Tokay_, in
_Poet. Works_, 1863, under "Nationality in Drinks."]--III.
"Nobly, nobly Cape St. Vincent," p. 8. ["Home Thoughts from
the Sea."]

_The Tomb at St. Praxed's_, p. 9.

_Garden Fancies._ I. _The Flower's Name._--II. _Sibrandus
Schafnaburgensis_, p. 10.

_France and Spain._ I. _The Laboratory_ (_Ancien
Régime_).--II. _The Confessional_, p. 11.

_The Flight of the Duchess_, p. 12.

_Earth's Immortalities._ I. "See, as the prettiest
graves."--II. "So the year's done with," p. 19.

_Song._ "Nay, but you, who do not love her," p. 19.

_The Boy and the Angel._ [A fresh couplet added on
republication in _Poet. Works_, 1868,] p. 19.

_Night and Morning._ I. _Night._--II. _Morning._ [Called
"Meeting at Night" and "Parting at Morning" in 1863], p. 20.

_Claret and Tokay._ I. "My heart sunk with our Claret-flask."
II. "Up jumped Tokay on our table." [These grouped together,
with "Here's to Nelson's Memory," as "Nationality in Drinks,"
No. 37 in _Poet. Works_, 1863,] p. 20.

_Saul_ [Part the First, only; completed in _Men and Women_,
1855,] p. 21.

_Time's Revenges_, p. 22.

_The Glove._ (Peter Ronsard _loquitur_), p 23.

1846. No. 8, and Last. LURIA; and A SOUL'S TRAGEDY. By Robert Browning. London, E. Moxon, 1846.

_Luria._ A Tragedy in five acts, p. 2.

_A Soul's Tragedy._ Part First, being what was called the
Poetry of Chiappino's Life; and Part Second, its Prose. [With
Preface to _A Soul's Tragedy_ not reprinted], p. 21.

1844. THE LABORATORY (Ancien Régime). By Robert Browning, in _Hood's Magazine_, vol. i., 1844, pp. 513-14. Reprinted in _Dramatic Romances and Lyrics_ (_Bells and Pomegranates_, No. 7), 1845, as the first of two poems called _France and Spain_.

1844. CLARET AND TOKAY. By Robert Browning. ["My heart sunk with our Claret-flask," and "Up jumped Tokay on our table"], in _Hood's Magazine_, vol. i., 1844, p. 525. Reprinted in _Dramatic Romances and Lyrics_ (_Bells and Pomegranates_, No. 7), 1845.

1844. GARDEN FANCIES. By Robert Browning. I. _The Flower's Name._--II. _Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis._ In _Hood's Magazine_, vol. ii., pp. 140-42, 1844. Revised and enlarged in _Dramatic Romances and Lyrics_ (_Bells and Pom._, No. 7), 1845.

1844. THE BOY AND THE ANGEL. By Robert Browning. In _Hood's Magazine_, vol. ii., pp. 140-42. Enlarged in _Dramatic Romances and Lyrics_ (_Bells and Pomegranates_, No. 7), 1845.

1845. THE TOMB AT ST. PRAXED'S (ROME 15--). By Robert Browning. In _Hood's Magazine_, vol. iii., pp. 237-9, 1845. Enlarged in _Dramatic Romances and Lyrics_ (_Bells and Pomegranates_, No. 7) in same year. Reappeared in _Works_, 1863, and after, with the title "The Bishop Orders his Tomb in St. Praxed's Church."

1845. THE FLIGHT OF THE DUCHESS. By Robert Browning. Part the first, in _Hood's Magazine_, vol. iii., pp. 313-18, 1845. Part II. appeared when the first part was reprinted in _Bells and Pomegranates_, No. 7, in the same year, _Dramatic Romances and Lyrics_.

1849. POEMS BY ROBERT BROWNING. A New Edition [but the first collection under a collective title]. 2 vols., 8vo. Chapman and Hall, 1849.

_Contents_: vol. i. Paracelsus, p. 1. Pippa Passes, a Drama,
p. 163. King Victor and King Charles, a Tragedy, p. 231.
Colombe's Birthday, a Play, p. 302.

Vol. ii. A Blot in the 'Scutcheon, a Tragedy, p. 1. The Return
of the Druses, a Tragedy, p. 61. Luria, a Tragedy, p. 139. A
Soul's Tragedy, p. 211. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, p. 253;
38 of the 41 pieces in _Bells and Pomegranates_, Nos. 3 and 7,
the three omitted being _Claret_, _Tokay_, and _Here's to
Nelson's Memory_.

1850. CHRISTMAS-EVE AND EASTER-DAY. A Poem. By Robert Browning. 8vo. Chapman and Hall, 1850. Reprinted in _Works_, 1863, and after.

1852. Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley. With an Introductory ESSAY BY ROBERT BROWNING. London, E. Moxon, 1852. 8vo. [The Essay is on Shelley--not on the "Letters," which were afterwards discovered to be spurious, with one exception.] The Essay was reprinted in the _Browning Society's Papers_, Part I., 1881. Edited by Dr. F. J. Furnivall. Another reprint, edited by W Tyas Harden, appeared in 1888, 8vo.

1854. Two POEMS. By Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. 8vo. London, Chapman and Hall, 1854. Price Sixpence. The poem by Robert Browning here is "The Twins," and is dated "Rome, March 30th, 1854." Reprinted in _Men and Women_, 1855, and in _Works_, 1863 and after. The "Two Poems" were printed by Miss Arabella Barrett for sale at a bazaar in aid of a "Refuge for Young Destitute Girls." Mrs. Browning's contribution was "A Plea for the Ragged Schools of London."

1855. MEN AND WOMEN. By Robert Browning. In two vols. 8vo. London, Chapman and Hall.

Contents: Vol. I.--

_Love Among the Ruins_, p. 1.
_A Lover's Quarrel_, p. 17.
_Evelyn Hope_, p. 19.
_Up at a Villa--Down in the City_, p. 23.
_A Woman's Last Word_, p. 31.
_Fra Lippo Lippi_, p. 35.
_A Toccata of Galuppi's_, p. 56.
_By the Fire-side_, p. 63.
_Any Wife to Any Husband_, p. 81.
_An Epistle concerning the strange Medical Experience of
Karshish the Arab Physician_, p. 90.
_Mesmerism_, p. 107.
_A Serenade at the Villa_, p. 117.
_My Star_, p. 122.
_Instans Tyrannus_, p. 123.
_A Pretty Woman_, p. 128.
"_Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came_," p. 134.
_Respectability_, p. 149.
_A Light Woman_, p. 151.
_The Statue and the Bust_, p. 156.
_Love in a Life_, p. 173
_Life in a Love_, p. 175.
_How it Strikes a Contemporary_, p. 177
_The Last Ride together_, p. 184.
_The Patriot._ An Old Story, p. 191.
_Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha_, p. 194.
_Bishop Blougram's Apology_, p. 205.
_Memorabilia_, p. 259.

Contents of Vol. II.:

_Andrea del Sarto_, p. 1.
_Before_, p. 15.
_After_, p. 19.
_In Three Days_, p. 21.
_In a Year_, p. 24.
_Old Pictures in Florence_, p. 30.
_In a Balcony_, p. 49.
_Saul_, p. 111.
"_De Gustibus_," p. 147.
_Women and Roses_, p. 150.
_Protus_, p. 154.
_Holy-Cross Day_, p. 158.
_The Guardian Angel_, p 167.
_Cleon_, p. 171.
_The Twins_, p. 190.
_Popularity_, p. 193.
_The Heretic's Tragedy_, p. 198.
_Two in the Campagna_, p. 205.
_A Grammarian's Funeral_, p. 210.
_One Way of Love_, p. 218.
_Another Way of Love_, p. 220.
"_Transcendentalism_" p. 223.
_Misconceptions_, p. 227.
_One Word More._ _To E. B. B._, p. 229.

1856. BEN KARSHOOK'S WISDOM. By Robert Browning. Twenty lines in _The Keepsake_ for 1856, edited by Miss Power. Never reprinted by Mr. Browning. The poem seems to be alluded to in "One Word More."

1857. MAY AND DEATH. By Robert Browning. In _The Keepsake_ for 1857. Reprinted in _Dramatis Personæ_, 1864, and in _Works_ 1868, and after.

1863. THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BROWNING. Third edition. Three vols., 8vo. London, Chapman and Hall, 1863. No new poems in this collection. It was re-issued as "Fourth Edition" in 1865.

Contents: Vol. I.

LYRICS.

_Cavalier Times_:--
I. _Marching Along_, p. 1.
II. _Give a Rouse_, p. 2.
III. _Boot and Saddle_, p. 3.
_The Lost Leader_, p. 4.
_How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix_, p. 6.
_Through the Metidja to Abd-el-Kader,_ p. 9.
_Nationality in Drinks_:--
I. _Claret_, p. 11.
II. _Tokay_, p. 11.
III. _Beer_ (_Nelson_), p. 12.
_Garden Fancies_:--
I. _The Flower's Name_, p. 13.
II. _Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis_, p. 15.
III. _Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister_, p. 18.
_The Laboratory_, p. 21.
_The Confessional_, p. 24.
_Cristina_, p. 27.
_The Lost Mistress_, p. 30
_Earth's Immortalities_, p. 31.
_Meeting at Night_, p. 32.
_Parting at Morning_, p. 33.
_Song_ ("_Nay but you_"), p. 33.
_A Woman's Last Word_, p. 34.
_Evelyn Hope_, p. 36.
_Love Among the Ruins_, p. 38.
_A Lover's Quarrel_, p. 42.
_Up at a Villa--Down in the City_, p. 49
_A Toccata of Galuppi's_, p. 54.
_Old Pictures in Florence_, p. 58.
"_De Gustibus_ ----" p. 70.
_Home Thoughts, from Abroad_, p. 72.
_Home Thoughts, from the Sea_, p. 73.
_Saul_, p. 74.
_My Star_, p. 98.
_By the Fireside_, p. 98.
_Any Wife to any Husband_, p. 110.
_Two in the Campagna_, p. 116.
_Misconceptions_, p. 119.
_A Serenade at the Villa_, p. 119.
_One Way of Love_, p. 122.
_Another Way of Love_, p. 123.
_A Pretty Woman_, p. 125.
_Respectability_, p. 129.
_Love in a Life_, p. 130.
_Life in a Love_, p. 131.
_In Three Days_, p. 132.
_In a Year_, p. 133.
_Women and Roses_, p. 137.
_Before_, p. 139.
_After_, p. 141.
_The Guardian Angel_--A Picture at Fano, p. 142.
_Memorabilia_, p. 145.
_Popularity_, p. 146.
_Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha_, p. 149.

ROMANCES.

_Incident of the French Camp_, p. 156
_The Patriot._ An Old Story, p. 158.
_My Last Duchess._ Ferrara, p. 159.
_Count Gismond._ Aix in Provence, p. 162.
_The Boy and the Angel_, p. 167.
_Instans Tyrannus_, p. 171.
_Mesmerism_, p. 174.
_The Glove_, p. 180.
_Time's Revenge_, p. 187.
_The Italian in England_, p. 189.
_The Englishman in Italy_--Piano di Sorrento, p. 195.
_In a Gondola_, p. 205.
_Waring_, p. 215.
_The Twins_, p. 225.
_A Light Woman_, p. 226.
_The Last Ride together_, p. 229.
_The Pied Piper of Hamelin; a Child's Story_, p. 234.
_The Flight of the Duchess_, 246.
_A Grammarian's Funeral_, p. 278.
_Johannes Agricola in Meditation_, p. 284.
_The Heretic's Tragedy_--A Middle-Age Interlude, p. 286.
_Holy-Cross Day_, p. 291.
_Protus_, p. 297.
_The Statue and the Bust_, p. 299.
_Porphyria's Lover_, p. 310.
"_Child Roland to the Dark Tower came_," p. 312.

Contents of Vol. II.

TRAGEDIES AND OTHER PLAYS.

_Pippa Passes--A Drama_, p. 1.
_King Victor and King Charles--A Tragedy_, p. 68.
_The Return of the Druses--A Tragedy_, p. 140.
_A Blot in the 'Scutcheon--A Tragedy_, p. 216.
_Colombe's Birthday--A Play_, p. 275.
_Luria--A Tragedy_, p. 357.
_A Soul's Tragedy_, p. 428.
_In a Balcony--A Scene_, p. 468.
_Strafford--A Tragedy_, p. 503.

Contents of Vol. III.

_Paracelsus_, p. 1.
_Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day_, p. 163.
_Sordello_, p. 252.

1863. SELECTIONS FROM THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BROWNING. 8vo. London, Chapman and Hall, 1863. The editors of this first selection were John Foster and B. W. Procter ("Barry Cornwall"). The volume was re-issued in 1869 with the imprint of Smith, Elder & Co.

1864. DRAMATIS PERSONÆ. By Robert Browning. 8vo. London, Chapman and Hall, 1864. Second edition published same year.

Contents.

_James Lee_, p. 3. [This appears as "James Lee's Wife" in the
_Poetical Works_, 1868 and after.]
_Gold Hair: a Legend of Pornic_, p. 27.
_The Worst of it_, p. 37.
_Dîs aliter visum; or, Le Byron de nos Jours_, p. 47.
_Too Late_, p. 57.
_Abt Vogler_, p. 67.
_Rabbi ben Ezra_, p. 77.
_Death in the Desert_, p. 91.
_Caliban upon Setebos; or, Natural Theology in the Island_, p.
123.
_Confessions_, p. 139.
_May and Death_, p. 145.
_Prospice_, p. 149.
_Youth and Art_, p. 153.
_A Face_, p. 161.
_A Likeness_, p. 165.
_Mr. Sludge_, "_the Medium_," p. 171.
_Apparent Failure_, p. 239.
_Epilogue_, p. 245.

Three of the above poems were reprinted from advance sheets in the _Atlantic Monthly_ (Boston, U. S.), vol. xiii., 1864, viz., _Gold Hair_, May, pp. 596-599; _Prospice_, May, p. 694; _Under the Cliff_ (part of _James Lee_), May, pp. 737-8.

1864. ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE. Eight lines in the Royal Academy Catalogue for 1864, in F. Leighton's (now P.R.A.) picture so named. First collected in _Poetical Works_, 1868, under the title of "Eurydice to Orpheus, a Picture by Fred Leighton, A.R.A."

1864. POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BROWNING. Fourth edition. A reprint of the Third edition (which see under "1863").

1865. A SELECTION FROM THE WORKS OF ROBERT BROWNING. Square post 8vo. "Moxon's Miniature Poets," E. Moxon & Co., 1865. With Dedication to Alfred Tennyson; and a photographic portrait of Robert Browning.

1866. A Selection from the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 8vo. London, Chapman and Hall, 1866. EDITED by Robert Browning, and has a PREFACE signed "R. B.," and dated "London, November, 1865."

1866. Last Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 8vo. London, Chapman & Hall, 1862. THE DEDICATION ("To Grateful Florence," etc.), and "ADVERTISEMENT" (dated "London, February, 1862"), written by Robert Browning. See _Browning Soc. Papers_ [additions to Bibliography], Parts I. and II., 1881, pp. 111, 162.

1868. THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BROWNING. Six vols. London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1868. There is only one new piece in this collection, viz., _Deaf and Dumb_; written for a marble group of two children by T. Woolner in the International Exhibition of 1862.

Contents of Vol. I.

_Pauline_, p. 1.
_Paracelsus_, p. 43.
_Strafford_, p. 207.

Contents of Vol. II.

_Sordello_, p. 1.
_Pippa Passes_, p. 219.

Contents of Vol. III.

_King Victor and King Charles_, p. 1.
_Dramatic Lyrics_:--
_Cavalier Tunes,_ p. 75.
_The Lost Leader_, p. 78.
_How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix_, p. 80.
_Through the Metidja to Abd-el-Kadr_, p. 83.
_Nationality in Drinks_, p. 85.
_Garden Fancies_, p. 87.
_Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister_, p. 92.
_The Laboratory_, p. 95.
_The Confessional_, p. 98.
_Cristina_, p. 101.
_The Lost Mistress_, p. 104.
_Earth's Immortalities_, p. 105.
_Meeting at Night_, p, 106.
_Parting at Morning_, p. 107.
_Song_ ("Nay but you "), p. 107.
_A Woman's last Word_, p. 108.
_Evelyn Hope_, p. 110.
_Love among the Ruins_, p. 112.
_A Lovers' Quarrel_, 115.
_Up at a Villa-Down in the City_, p. 122.
_A Toccata of Galuppi's_, p. 127.
_Old Pictures in Florence_, p. 131.
"_De Gustibus_ ----" p. 143.
_Home Thoughts from Abroad_, p. 145.
_Home Thoughts from the Sea_, p. 146.
_Saul_, p. 146.
_My Star_, p. 170.
_By the Fire-side_, p. 170.
_Any Wife to any Husband_, p. 182
_Two in the Campagna_, p. 188.
_Misconceptions_, p. 191.
_A Serenade at the Villa_, p. 191.
_One Way of Love_, p. 194.
_Another Way of Love_, p. 195.
_A Pretty Woman_, p. 197.
_Respectability_, p. 201.
_Love in a Life_, p. 202.
_Life in a Love_, p. 203.
_In Three Days_, p. 204.
_In a Year_, p. 205.
_Women and Roses_, p. 209.
_Before_, p. 211.
_After_, p. 213.
_The Guardian Angel_, p. 214.
_Memorabilia_, p. 217.
_Popularity_, p. 218.
_Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha_, p. 221.
_The Return of the Druses_, p. 229.

Contents of Vol. IV.

_A Blot in the 'Scutcheon_, 1.
_Colombe's Birthday_, p. 61.
_Dramatic Romances_:--
_Incident of the French Camp_, p. 147.
_The Patriot_, p. 149.
_My Last Duchess_, p. 150.
_Count Gismond_, p. 153.
_The Boy and the Angel_, p. 158.
_Instans Tyrannus_, p. 162.
_Mesmerism_, p. 165.
_The Glove_, p. 171.
_Time's Revenges_, p. 178.
_The Italian in England_, p. 180.
_The Englishman in Italy_, p. 186.
_In a Gondola_, p. 196.
_Waring_, p. 206.
_The Twins_, p. 216.
_A Light Woman_, p. 217.
_The Last Ride together_, p. 220.
_The Pied Piper of Hamelin_, p. 225.
_The Flight of the Duchess_, 237.
_A Grammarian's Funeral_, p. 270.
_The Heretic's Tragedy_, p. 275.
_Holy-Cross Day_, p. 280.
_Protus_, p. 286.
_The Statue and the Bust_, p. 288.
_Porphyria's Lover_, p. 299.
"_Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came_," p. 301.

Contents of Vol. V.

_A Soul's Tragedy_, p. 1.
_Luria_, p. 43.
_Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day_, p. 115.
_Men and Women:--
"Transcendentalism; a Poem in Twelve Books_," p. 207.
_How it strikes a Contemporary_, p. 209.
_Artemis Prologizes_, p. 213.
_An Epistle (Karshish)_, p. 218.
_Johannes Agricola in Meditation_, p. 229.
_Pictor Ignotus_, p. 231.
_Fra Lippo Lippi_, p. 234.
_Andrea del Sarto_, p. 248.
_The Bishop orders his Tomb at St. Praxed's Church_, p. 257.
_Bishop Blougram's Apology_, p. 262.
_Cleon_, p. 299.
_Rudel to the Lady of Tripoli_, p. 311.
_One Word More_, p. 313.

Contents of Vol. VI.

_In a Balcony_, p. 1.
_Dramatis Personæ_:--
_James Lee's Wife_, p. 41.
_Gold Hair; a Story of Pornic_, p. 62.
_The Worst of it_, p. 70.
_Dîs aliter visum; or, Le Byron de nos Jours_, p. 77.
_Too Late_, p. 85.
_Abt Vogler_, p. 92.
_Rabbi ben Ezra_, p. 99.
_A Death in the Desert_, p. 110.
_Caliban upon Setebos_, p. 136.
_Confessions_, p. 148.
_May and Death_, p. 150.
_Deaf and Dumb: a group by Woolner_, p. 151
_Prospice_, p. 152.
_Eurydice to Orpheus; a Picture by Leighton_, p. 153.
_Youth and Art_, p. 154.
_A Face_, p. 158.
_A Likeness_, p. 159.
_Mr. Sludge_, "_the Medium_," p. 162.
_Apparent Failure_, p. 219.
_Epilogue_ (Three Speakers) p. 222.

1868-9. THE RING AND THE BOOK. By Robert Browning. In four vols., 8vo. London, Smith, Elder & Co., vols. i., ii., 1868; vols. iii., iv., 1869. The volumes were issued one by one, between November 1868 and February 1869. A "second edition," four volumes, appeared 1869.

1871. HERVÉ RIEL. In the _Cornhill Magazine_, March, 1871, pp. 257-60. Is dated "Croisic, Sept. 30th, 1867." Reprinted in _Pacchiarotto_, &c., 1876.

1871. BALAUSTION'S ADVENTURE: INCLUDING A TRANSCRIPT FROM EURIPIDES. By Robert Browning. 8vo. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1871. With dedication to the Countess Cowper dated July 22, 1871. A third edition appeared in 1881. _The Last Adventure of Balaustion_, in _Aristophanes' Apology_, &c., 1875, in a sequel to this work.

1871. PRINCE HOHENSTIEL-SCHWANGAU: SAVIOUR OF SOCIETY. By Robert Browning. 8vo. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1871.

1872. FIFINE AT THE FAIR. By Robert Browning. 8vo. London, Smith, Elder & Co. 1872.

1872. SELECTIONS FROM THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BROWNING. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1872. With a preface dated "London, May 14th, 1872." "Dedicated to Alfred Tennyson."

1872. THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BROWNING. (The Tauchnitz selection). Two vols., 8vo. Leipzig; "Collection of British Authors." As this is a "copyright edition," the selection must have been either made or sanctioned by Mr. Browning.

1872-4. COMPLETE WORKS OF ROBERT BROWNING. A reprint from the latest English edition. 8vo. Chicago. Nos. 1-19 of the "Official Guide of the Chicago and Alton R.R. and Monthly Reprint and Advertiser." Edited by the manager of the railway, Mr. James Charlton. A copy is in the British Museum.

1873. RED COTTON NIGHT-CAP COUNTRY, OR TURF AND TOWERS. By Robert Browning. 8vo. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1873. Dated at the end "January 23, 1873." Dedicated "To Miss Thackeray."

1875. ARISTOPHANES' APOLOGY, INCLUDING A TRANSCRIPT FROM EURIPIDES, BEING THE LAST ADVENTURE OF BALAUSTION. By Robert Browning. 8vo. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1875. The "Transcript" is "Herakles."

1875. THE INN ALBUM. By Robert Browning. 8vo. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1875.

A translation of this work into German by E. Leo: "Das Fremdenbuch," Hamburg, 1877.

1876. PACCHIAROTTO AND HOW HE WORKED IN DISTEMPER: WITH OTHER POEMS. By Robert Browning. 8vo. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1876.

Contents.

_Prologue._ ("O the old wall here.") [Called "A Wall" in the
selection of 1880], p. 1.
_Of Pacchiarotto and how he worked in Distemper_, p. 4.
_At the_ "_Mermaid_," p. 47.
_House_, p. 60.
_Shop_, p. 64.
_Pisgah-Sights_, I., p. 75.
_Pisgah-Sights_, II., p. 78.
_Fears and Scruples_, p. 83.
_Natural Magic_, p. 88.
_Magical Nature_, p. 90.
_Bifurcation_, p. 91.
_Numpholeptos_, p. 95.
_Appearances_, p. 106.
_St. Martin's Summer_, p. 108
_Hervé Riel_, p. 117.
_A Forgiveness_, p. 131.
_Cenciaja_, p. 162.
_Filippo Baldinucci on the Privilege of Burial_, p. 184
_Epilogue_ ["'The Poets pour us wine,'"] p. 223.

1877. THE AGAMEMNON OF ÆSCHYLUS, transcribed by ROBERT BROWNING. 8vo., Smith, Elder & Co., 1877, with preface dated London, October 1st, 1877.

1877. FAVOURITE POEMS. By Robert Browning. [A selection]. Illustrated, pp. 96, 16mo. Boston, James R. Osgood & Co., 1877. [The Vest-Pocket Series of Standard and Popular Authors].

1878. LA SAISIAZ: THE TWO POETS OF CROISIC. By Robert Browning. 8vo. Smith, Elder & Co., 1878. "Dedicated to Mrs. Sutherland Orr." _La Saisiaz_ is dated "November 9th, 1877," and _The Two Poets of Croisic_, "January 15th, 1878." The Proem to the _Two Poets of Croisic_ was named "Apparitions" in the _Selections_ of 1880.

1879. "OH LOVE, LOVE." _Two Stanzas--eighteen lines translated from the Hippolytus of Euripides_, contributed to Mr. J. P. Mahaffy's _Euripides_, p. 115, Macmillan, 1879. Not included in any collection of Robert Browning's Poems. Reprinted in _Browning Soc. (Bibliography) Papers_, pt. 1, 1881, p. 69.

1879. DRAMATIC IDYLS. By Robert Browning. Post 8vo. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1879.

Contents.

_Martin Relph_, p. 1.
_Pheidippides_, p. 27.
_Halbert and Hob_, p. 45.
_Ivàn Ivànovitch_, p. 57.
_Tray_, p. 101.
_Ned Bratts_, p. 107.

1879. "THE BLIND MAN TO THE MAIDEN SAID." Poem, twenty lines, in "The Hour Will Come," by Wilhelmine von Hillern, translated from the German by Mrs. Clara Bell (vol. ii., p. 174). London, 8vo. Quoted in _Whitehall Review_, March 1, 1883, with statement that the English version of the poem is by Mr. Browning. Reprinted with some particulars in the _Browning Society's Papers_, pt. ii., p. 410, 1883.

1880. DRAMATIC IDYLS. Second Series. By Robert Browning. Post 8vo. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1880.

Contents.

[_Proem_] ("You are sick, that's sure"), p. vii.
_Echetlos_, p. 1.
_Clive_, p. 9.
_Muléykeh_, p. 43.
_Pietro of Abano_, p. 61.
_Doctor_ ----, p. 113.
_Pan and Luna_, p. 137.
[_Epilogue_], ("Touch him ne'er so lightly"), p. 149.

Ten additional lines to this epilogue have been published--"Thus I wrote in London, musing," &c. These lines appeared in the _Century Magazine_ (Scribner's), vol. 25, 1882, pp. 159, 160, and were there said to have been written in an autograph album, October 14th, 1880. They were reprinted in the _Browning Society's Papers_, pt. iii., p. 48*, November, 1882, but have been withdrawn from the Society's later issues.

1880. SELECTIONS FROM THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BROWNING. Second Series. 8vo. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1880. The First Series appeared in 1872. Both were reprinted in 1884.

1882. A SELECTION FROM THE WORKS OF ROBERT BROWNING. With a Memoir of the Author, and explanatory notes, by F. H. Ahn, 8vo. Berlin, 1882. This is vol. viii. of Ahn's _Collection of British and American Standard Authors_.

1883. JOCOSERIA. By Robert Browning. 8vo. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1883.

Contents.

_Wanting is--What?_ p. 1.
_Donald_, p. 5.
_Solomon and Balkis_, p. 25.
_Cristina and Monaldeschi_, p. 33.
_Mary Wollstonecraft and Fuseli_, p. 45.
_Adam, Lilith, and Eve_, p. 51.
_Ixion_, p. 55.
_Jochanan Hakkadosh_, p. 71.
_Never the Time and the Place_, p. 133.
_Pambo_, p. 137.

1883. LYRICAL AND DRAMATIC POEMS SELECTED FROM THE WORKS OF ROBERT BROWNING. Edited by E. T. Mason. 8vo. New York, 1883.

[1883.] SELECTIONS FROM THE POETRY OF ROBERT BROWNING. With an Introduction by R. G. White, 8vo. New York.

1883. SONNET ON GOLDONI. Dated "Venice, Nov. 27, 1883," and written for the Album of the Committee of the Goldoni Monument at Venice, where it appears upon the first page. Printed in the _Pall Mall Gazette_, Dec. 8, 1883, and in the _Browning Society's Papers_, pt. v., p. 98*, 1884.

1883. PARAPHRASE FROM HORACE. (On Singers). [Horace's "_Omnibus hoc vitium est cantoribus_," etc.] Four lines written impromptu for Mr. Felix Moscheles. Published in the _Pall Mall Gazette_, Dec. 12, 1883, and in the _Browning Society's Papers_, pt. v. p. 99*, 1884.

1884. SONNET ON RAWDON BROWN. Dated Nov. 28. 1883, and published in the. _Century Magazine_, vol. 27, Feb. 1884, p. 640. Reprinted in the _Browning Society's Papers_, pt. v., p. 132*, 1884.

1884. THE FOUNDER OF THE FEAST.--A Sonnet. Inscribed by Mr. Browning in the Album presented to Mr. Arthur Chappell, director of the St. James's Hall Popular Concerts, etc. (_The World_, April 16, 1884). Reprinted in the _Browning Society's Papers_, pt. vii., p. 18*, 1884. The sonnet is dated "April 5th, 1884."

1884. THE NAMES. Sonnet on Shakspeare. On page 1 of the "Shaksperian Show Book" of the Shaksperian Show held at the Albert Hall, May 29-31, 1884. The poem is dated "March 12, '84," and was published in the _Pall Mall Gazette_, May 29, 1884, and in the _Browning Society's Papers_, pt. v., p. 105*.

1884. "The Divine Order, and other Sermons and Addresses. By the late Thomas Jones." Edited by Brynmor Jones; with a short INTRODUCTION by Robert Browning. London, 1884, 8vo.

1884. FERISHTAH'S FANCIES. By Robert Browning 8vo. Smith, Elder & Co., 1884.

Contents:

_Prologue_ ("Pray Reader"), p 1.
1. _The Eagle_, p. 5.
2. _The Melon-Seller_, p. 9.
3. _Shah Abbas_, p 13.
4. _The Family_, p. 25.
5. _The Sun_, p. 33.
6. _Mihrab Shah_, p. 46.
7. _A Camel-Driver_, p. 59,
8. _Two Camels_, p. 69.
9. _Cherries_, p. 78.
10. _Plot-Culture_, p. 87.
11. _A Pillar at Sebzevah_, p. 93.
12. _A Bean-Stripe_; _also Apple-eating_, p. 105.
_Epilogue_ ["Oh, Love--no Love!"] p. 140.

1884. SELECTIONS FROM THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BROWNING. Two series. 2 vols. 8vo. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1884. A reprint of the two series, which appeared respectively in 1872 and 1880.

1884. THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN. By Robert Browning. London, Robert Dunthorne, 1884. Small 4to. Not published for sale, but printed by Mr. Browning's permission "to accompany Mr. Macbeth's Etchings, after the late G. J. Pinwell's drawings illustrating its subject."

1885. POMEGRANATES FROM AN ENGLISH GARDEN: A SELECTION FROM THE POEMS OF ROBERT BROWNING. With Introduction and Notes by John Munro Gibson. New York, 1885, 8vo.

1885. WHY I AM A LIBERAL. Sonnet contributed to "Why I am a Liberal," edited by Andrew Reid. London, Cassell & Co., n.d. [1885]. Not collected by Mr. Browning, but reprinted in _Browning Society's Papers_, October, 1885, p. 89*, and in "Sonnets of the Century," edited by W. Sharp, 1886.

1886. Spring Song ("Dance, yellows and whites and reds!") contributed to _The New Amphion: being the Book of the_ Edinburgh University Union _Fancy Fair_. Edinburgh University Press, 1886, p. 1. (Reappeared in _Lairesse_ in _Parleyings_, &c., p. 189).

1886. SELECT POEMS OF ROBERT BROWNING, with notes by W. J. Rolfe and H. E. Mersey. New York, 1886, 8vo.

1887. PARLEYINGS WITH CERTAIN PEOPLE OF IMPORTANCE IN THEIR DAY; to wit:

_Bernard de Mandeville_,
_Daniel Bartoli_,
_Christopher Smart_,
_George Bubb Dodington_,
_Francis Furini_,
_Gerard de Lairesse_, and
_Charles Avison_.

Introduced by _A Dialogue between Apollo and The Fates_; concluded by another between _John Fust and his Friends_. By Robert Browning. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1887, 8vo. Dedicated "In Memoriam J. Milsand, obit. iv. Sept. MDCCCLXXXVI. _Absens absentem auditque videtque._"

1888-9. THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BROWNING. Sixteen vols. 8vo. Smith, Elder & Co., 1888-9. All the works collected by the author, excepting only _Asolando_.

Contents.

_Pauline_, vol. i., p. 1.
_Sordello_, vol. i., p. 47.
_Paracelsus_, vol. ii., p. 1.
_Strafford_, vol. ii., p. 187.
_Pippa Passes_, vol. iii., p. 1
_King Victor and King Charles_, vol. iii., p. 81.
_Return of the Druses_, vol. iii., p. 167.
_A Soul's Tragedy_, vol. iii., p. 257.
_A Blot in the 'Scutcheon_, vol. iv., p. 1.
_Colombe's Birthday_, vol. iv., p. 71.
_Men and Women_, vol. iv., p. 171.
_Dramatic Romances_, vol. v., p. 1.
_Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day_, vol. v., p. 209.
_Dramatic Lyrics_, vol. vi., p. 1.
_Luria_, vol. vi., p. 209.
_In a Balcony_, vol. vii., p. 1.
_Dramatis Personæ_, vol. vii., p. 45.
_The Ring and the Book._ Books 1 to 4, vol. viii., p. 1.
" " Books 5 to 8, vol. ix., p. 1.
" " Books 9 to 12, vol. x., p. 1.
_Balaustion's Adventure_, vol xi., p. 1.
_Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau,_ vol. xi., p. 123.
_Fifine at the Fair_, vol. xi., p. 211.
_Red Cotton Night-Cap Country_, vol. xii., p. 1.
_The Inn Album_, vol. xii., p. 179.
_Aristophanes' Apology_, including a Transcript from
Euripides, being the _Last Adventure of Balaustion_, vol.
xiii., p. 1.
_The Agamemnon of Æschylus_, vol. xiii., p. 259.
_Pacchiarotto, and how he worked in Distemper_; with other
Poems, vol. xiv., p. 1.
_La Saisiaz_: and _The Two Poets of Croisic_, vol. xiv., p.
153.
_Dramatic Idyls._ First series, vol. xv., p. 1.
" " Second series, vol. xv., p. 85.
_Jocoseria_, vol. xv., p. 165.
_Ferishtah's Fancies_, vol. xvi., p. 1.
_Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in their Day_, vol.
xvi., p. 93.

[1889]. THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN. By Robert Browning. With 35 illustrations by Kate Greenaway. Pp. 64, Routledge & Sons, 4to.

1889. FIVE LINES (beginning "Wind wafted from the sunset"), on a picture by Mr. Felix Moscheles, "The Isle's Enchantress." Printed in the _Pall Mall Gazette_ for March 26, 1889.

1889-90. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. In six volumes. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1889-90. 8vo. Vol. i. contains a PREFATORY NOTE signed "R. B.," and dated "29, De Vere Gardens, W., December 10, 1887" ["1887" must be a misprint for 1888, as the "Prefatory Note" mentions a Memoir of E. B. Browning by John H. Ingram, which was published in September, 1888].

1890. ASOLANDO: FANCIES AND FACTS. By Robert Browning. 8vo. Smith, Elder & Co., 1890. With dedication "To Mrs. Arthur Bronson." Now (1891) in its eighth edition. The dedication is dated "Asolo, October 15, 1889." The volume was published on the day of the poet's death, December 12, 1889.

Contents.

_Prologue_ ("The Poet's age is sad; for why?") p. 1.
_Rosny_, p. 5.
_Dubiety_, p. 8.
_Now_, p. 10.
_Humility_, p. 11.
_Poetics_, p. 12.
_Summum Bonum_, p. 13.
_A Pearl, a Girl_, p. 14.
_Speculative_, p. 15.
_White Witchcraft_, p. 17.
_Bad Dreams_, I., II., III., IV., p. 19.
_Inapprehensiveness_, p. 34.
_Which?_ p. 37.
_The Cardinal and the Dog_, p. 40.
_The Pope and the Net_, p. 42
_The Bean-Feast_, p. 46.
_Muckle-Mouth Meg_, p. 52.
_Arcades ambo_, p. 56.
_The Lady and the Painter_, p. 58.
_Ponte dell' Angelo_, _Venice_, p. 61.
_Beatrice Signorini_, p. 76.
_Flute Music, with an Accompaniment_, p. 99.
"_Imperante Augusto natus est_ ----," p. 112.
_Development_, p. 123.
_Rephan_, p. 131.
_Reverie_, p. 141.
_Epilogue_ ("At the midnight, in the silence of the sleep-time"),
p. 156.

1890. Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. With PREFATORY NOTE by R. B. 16mo. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1890.

1890. POCKET VOLUME OF SELECTIONS FROM THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BROWNING. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1890, 16mo.

*** In the "Bibliography" attached to Mr. William Sharp's "Life of Robert Browning" (London, W. Scott, 1890), under Section II., "Single Works," appear the following entries:--

(1) "Cleon. Moxon: London, 1855. 8vo. Reprinted in _Men and
Women_."

(2) "Gold Hair: a Legend of Pornic. [London], 1864. 8vo.
Reprinted in _Dramatis Personæ_."

(3) "The Statue and the Bust. Moxon: London, 1855. 8vo.
Reprinted in _Men and Women_."

(4) Mr. Sharp also (p. 173) mentions a leaflet containing
"Prospice."

Pamphlets bearing the titles of the first and third certainly exist, and this may also be the case with regard to the second and fourth; but as nothing is known of the history of any one of the four, all are excluded from the foregoing Bibliography.

AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF ROBERT BROWNING'S WORKS,

BEING AN INDEX TO THE FOREGOING BIBLIOGRAPHY AND TO THE COLLECTED EDITIONS OF 1868 AND 1889-90.

Page of In 6 vols. In 16 vols. Bibliography. Title. Date. edit. 1868 edit. 1889-90 vol. & page. vol. & page.

367 ABD-EL-KADR, Through the Metidja to 1842 iii. 83 vi. 13 377 Abt Vogler 1864 vi. 92 vii. 101 387 Adam, Lilith, and Eve 1883 xv. 197 384 Æschylus, The Agamemnon of 1877 xiii. 259 372 After 1855 iii. 213 vi. 186 384 Agamemnon of Æschylus, The 1877 xiii. 259 386 Ahn, F. H., Selections by 1882 367 Aix in Provence. _See_ Count Gismond 1842 iv. 153 v. 11 382 Alkestis, Euripides', a translation from. _See_ Balaustion's Adventure 1871 xi. 1 383 Amphibian (Prol. to _Fifine_) 1872 xi. 215 389 Amphion, The New Contribution to, "Spring Song" 1886 xvi. 219 372 Andrea del Sarto 1855 v. 248 iv. 221 372 Another Way of Love 1855 iii. 195 vi. 161 371 Any Wife to any Husband 1855 iii. 182 vi. 142 390 Apollo and the Fates, Dialogue between 1887 xvi. 97 377 Apparent Failure 1864 vi. 219 vii. 246 385 Apparitions (Proem, _Two Poets of Croisic_) 1878 xiv. 207 384 Appearances 1876 xiv. 70 388 Apple-eating 1884 xvi. 69 392 Arcades ambo 1890 383 Aristophanes' Apology 1875 xiii. 1 367 Artemis Prologuizes 1842 v. 213 iv. 181 377 _Atlantic Monthly_, _see_ "Dramatis Personæ" 1864 392 Asolando: Fancies and Facts 1890 384 At the "Mermaid" 1876 xiv. 31 390 Avison, Charles, Parleying with 1887 xvi. 221 393 "At the midnight" (Epilogue to Asolando) 1890

372 B., E. B. (Mrs. Browning), To ["One Word More"] 1855 v. 313 iv. 296 392 Bad Dreams 1890 383 Balaustion, The Last Adventure of. _See_ Aristophanes' Apology. 1875 xiii. 1 382 Balaustion's Adventure 1871 xi. 1 389 Bartoli, Daniel, Parleying with 1887 xvi. 132 392 Bean-Feast, The 1890 388 Bean-stripe, A 1884 xvi. 69 392 Beatrice Signorini 1890 368 Beer, Nationality in Drinks 1845 iii. 85 vi. 16 372 Before 1855 iii. 211 vi. 183 366 Bells and Pomegranates 1841-46 372 Ben Karshook's Wisdom 1856 384 Bifurcation 1876 xiv. 61 372 Bishop Blougram's Apology 1855 v. 262 iv. 71 369 Bishop (The) orders his Tomb at St. Praxed's 1845 v. 257 iv. 232 385 "Blind man (The) to the maiden said" (translation) 1879 367 Blot (A) in the Scutcheon 1843 iv. 1 iv. 1 367 Boot and Saddle ["My Wife," etc.] 1842 iii. 75 vi. 6 369 Boy and the Angel, The 1844 iv. 158 v. 19 387 Brown, Rawdon, Sonnet on 1884 372 B[rowning], E. B., To 1855 v. 313 iv. 296 377 Browning, Mrs. Selection from her Poetry. Edited by R. B. 1866 378 ---- Last Poems. Edited by R. B. 1866 391 ---- Edition of the Poems of (6 vols.) 1889-90 384 Burial, The Privilege of. _See_ Filippo Baldinucci 1876 xiv. 117 371 By the Fire-side 1855 iii. 170 vi. 126 376 Byron (Le) de nos Jours 1864 vi. 77 vii. 85

377 Caliban upon Setebos 1864 vi. 136 vii. 149 388 Camel-Driver, A 1884 xvi. 40 367 Camp and Cloister 1842 iv. 147 v. 3 392 Cardinal (The) and the Dog 1890 367 Cavalier Tunes 1842 iii. 75 vi. 3 384 Cenciaja 1876 xiv. 104 387 Chappell, (Arthur,) Sonnet to 1884 388 Cherries 1884 xvi. 53 371 "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came" 1855 iv. 301 v. 194 370 Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day 1850 v. 115 v. 209 369 Claret and Tokay 1844 iii. 85 vi. 16 372 Cleon 1855 v. 299 iv. 279 386 Clive 1880 xv. 88 367 Cloister (Spanish) 1842 iii. 92 vi. 26 367 Colombe's Birthday 1844 iv. 61 iv. 71 368 Confessional, The 1845 iii. 98 vi. 34 377 Confessions 1864 vi. 148 vii. 162 367 Count Gismond, Aix in Provence 1842 iv. 153 v. 11 367 Cristina 1842 iii. 101 vi. 39 387 Cristina and Monaldeschi 1883 xv. 188 385 Croisic, The Two Poets of 1878 xiv. 219 382 _Cornhill Magazine_, contribution to. _See_ Hervé Riel 1871 377 David, etc. (Epil. to _Dram. Personæ_) 1864 vi. 222 vii. 250 378 Deaf and Dumb 1868 vi. 151 vii. 167 377 Death in the Desert, A 1864 vi. 110 vii. 120 372 "De Gustibus ----" 1855 iii. 143 vi. 92 393 Development 1890 376 Dîs aliter Visum; or, Le Byron de nos Jours 1864 vi. 77 vii. 85 388 "Divine Order," Introduction to 1884 386 Doctor ---- 1880 xv. 146 390 Dodington, George Bubb, Parleying with 1887 xvi. 160 387 Donald 1883 xv. 169 385 Dramatic Idyls [First Series] 1879 xv. 1 386 ---- Second Series 1880 xv. 85 366 Dramatic Lyrics 1842 iii. 73 vi. 1 367 Dramatic Romances and Lyrics 1845 { iii. 73 v. 3 { iv. 145 vi. 1 376 Dramatis Personæ 1864 vi. 41 vii. 45 368 Drinks, Nationality in 1844 iii. 85 vi. 16 392 Dubiety 1890 370 Duchess, Flight of the 1845 iv. 237 v. 116

388 Eagle, The 1884 xv. 6 368 Earth's Immortalities 1845 iii. 105 vi. 45 386 Echetlos 1880 xv. 85 368 England in Italy 1845 iv. 180 v. 47 368 "England, Oh to be in," 1845 iii. 145 vi. 95 368 Englishman in Italy, The 1845 iv. 180 v. 54 377 Epilogue ("_Dram. Personæ_") 1864 vi. 222 vii. 250 384 ---- (_Pacchiarotto_) 1876 xiv. 141 385 ---- (_La Saisiaz_) 1878 xiv. 273 386 ---- (_Dramatic Idyls II._) 1880 xv. 164 388 ---- (_Ferishtah's Fancies_) 1884 xvi. 90 390 ---- (_Parleyings_, _etc._) 1887 xvi. 241 393 ---- (_Asolando_) 1890 371 Epistle (An) concerning the strange Medical Experience of Karshish, etc. 1855 v. 218 iv. 186 377 Eurydice to Orpheus 1864 vi. 153 vii. 170 382 Euripides, A Transcript from (Alkestis). _See_ Balaustion's Adventure 1871 xi. 1 383 ---- A Transcript from (Herakles Mainomenos) 1875 xiii. 147 385 ---- two stanzas from Hippolytus 1879 371 Evelyn Hope 1855 iii. 110 vi. 51 365 "Eyes calm beside thee" (Sonnet) 1834