5 AUGUST 1899, Page 25

Essays on Robert Browning. By Marion Little. (Swan Sonnenschein and

Co. 3a. 6d.)—We would specially commend to our readers the chapter on " Browning's Public." It sets forth admirably the greatness and the limitations of the poet. Miss Little writes : " Browning's supreme title of honour is this, that he is in the lives of many something supreme and unique. Many people, looking back, can say that he has spoken to them as no one else has spoken, and that life and death and all things wear a different aspect for his handling." This is the case put in a few words. The special subjects of Miss Little's essays are " Paracelsus," the character of Caponsacchi in "The Ring and the Book" and Browning's poems dealing with °‘ Painters and their Art."