29 OCTOBER 1898, page 22

Harrow-on-the-hill.*

The sunny humour rippling on the lips 'Mid pleasant tales of ancient strife and stress; And hope that knew no languor nor eclipse, And clear, calm eyes, and gallant tenderness."......

Robert Browning.•

AMONG the chief poets of the Victorian Age Browning occupies a great but perplexing position. It is still too early to appraise with any finality the virtues and defects of the......