Studies iiL the Poetry of Robert Browning. By James Fotheringham.
(Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—" Browning Societies," or, in any case, the spirit which sets these societies to work, are having their natural literary outcome. A mass of essays, commentaries, and expositions is growing round the poems in a way that has seldom been seen in literary history. Mr. Fotheringham deals chiefly with the earlier and middle period of Mr. Browning's work, and has much that is instructive to say. To discuss his criticism in detail would take us too far, and, indeed, would be to restate imperfectly what has already been more fully expressed in this journal.—Another volume on the same subject, but taking in all Mr. Browning's work, though in a less elaborate way, is the Introduction to the Study of Browning, by. Arthur Symons (Cassell and Co.)—In this connection we may mention A Companion to " In Memoriam," by Elizabeth Rachel Chapman (Macmillan), re- printed from the author's " Comtist Lover, and other Studies," a volume of which we spoke some little time ago.
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