tion, and the realization that if her lover falls it will be because her ideal of heroism has driven him to his fate. ('Asolando,' 1889.) P. 455. Poetics illustrates the deficiency of metaphors conventionally drawn from the inanimate, or the lower animal world, to celebrate fitly the beauty of human love. ('Asolando,' 1889.) P. 455. Summum Bonum. In a moment of love, which is the highest good, is contained all the beauty and truth of the universe. ('Asolando,' 1889.) P. 455. Mucklemouth Meg. A lively ballad describing an actual foray over the border of a young English lord, William Scott of the House of Harden; his seizure by the Scotch laird, Sir Gideon Murray of Elibank; the intervention of the Dame should he marry wide-mouthed Meg; his contumacy, confinement, and happy release by the misnamed Meg. ('Asolando,' 1889.) P. 456. Epilogue to 'Asolando' deprecates the thought that those who love the poet should pity him in death, and so, mistake the whole tenor of his life with its strenuous hopefulness in the face of all difficulties, and its joyous faith in a future of soul development. (Asolando,' 1889.) BIBLIOGRAPHY. 1833. Pauline: A Fragment of a Con- | 1844. Bells and Pomegranates. No. VI. Colombe's Birthday. A Play in Five Acts. fession. 1835. Paracelsus. 1837. Strafford: A Historical Tragedy. 1845. Bells and Pomegranates. No. 1840. Sordello. VII. Lyrics. Dramatic Romances and CONTENTS. "How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix." Pictor Ignotus. The Lost Leader. The Lost Mistress. Home Thoughts from Abroad. (1) The Flower's Name. sis. (1) The Laboratory. (2) The Confessional. The Flight of the Duchess. Earth's Immortalities. Song: "Nay, but you, who de not love her." The Boy and the Angel. Saul. Time's Revenges. The Glove. A Pillar at Sebzevar. A Bean-Stripe: Also Apple-Eat- 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. 1888-9. The Poetical Works of Robert Browning. Sixteen volumes. 1890 [1889]. Asolando: Fancies and CONTENTS. 1890. Prologue. Rosny. Dubiety. Now. Humility. Summum Bonum. A Pearl, a Girl. White Witchcraft. Bad Dreams, II. Bad Dreams, III. Bad Dreams, IV. Inapprehensiveness. Which? The Cardinal and the Dog. The Pope and the Net. The Lady and the Painter. Flute Music, with an Accompani ment. "Imperante Augusto natusestDevelopment. Rephan. Reverie. Epilogue. Facts. |