11. Red Cotton Night-Cap Country, The Inn
Album, Vol. XIII., pp. 357. Aristophanes' Apology, The
Agamemnon of AEschylus. Vol. XIV., pp. vi., 279. Pacchiarotto
and how he worked in Distemper, with other Poems. [La
Saisiaz, the Two Poets of Croisic.] Vol. XV., pp. vi., 260.
Dramatic Idyls, Jocoseria. Vol. XVI., pp. vi., 275.
Ferishtah's Fancies. Parleyings with Certain People. General
Index, pp. 277-85; Index to First Lines of Shorter Poems, pp.
287-92. Vol. XVII., pp. viii., 288. Asolando, Biographical
and Historical Notes to the Poems. General Index, pp. 289-99;
Index to First Lines of Shorter Poems, pp. 301-307. This
edition contains Browning's final text of his poems.

62. ASOLANDO: FANCIES AND FACTS. By Robert Browning. London: Smith,
Elder & Co., 15 Waterloo Place. 1890, pp. viii., 157. (_Poetical Works_,
1894, Vol. XVII., pp. 1-131.)

Contents:--Prologue. 1. Rosny. 2. Dubiety. 3. Now. 4.
Humility. 5. Poetics. 6. Summum Bonum. 7. A Pearl, a Girl. 8.
Speculative. 9. White Witchcraft. 10. Bad Dreams (i.-iv.).
11. Inapprehensiveness. 12. Which? 13. The Cardinal and the
Dog. 14. The Pope and the Net. 15. The Bean-Feast. 16.
Muckle-mouth Meg. 17. Arcades Ambo. 18. The Lady and the
Painter. 19. Ponte dell' Angelo, Venice. 20. Beatrice
Signorini. 21. Flute-Music, with an Accompaniment. 22.
"Imperante Augusto natus est--." 23. Development. 24. Rephan.
25. Reverie. Prologue.

63. THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BROWNING. With Portraits. In two
volumes. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 15 Waterloo Place, 1896. Vol. I.,
pp. viii., 784; Vol. II., pp. vii., 786.

The Editor's note, after p. viii., signed "Augustine Birrell," says:
"All that has been done is to prefix (within square brackets) to some of
the plays and poems a few lines explanatory of the characters and events
depicted and described, and to explain in the margin of the volumes the
meaning of such words as might, if left unexplained, momentarily arrest
the understanding of the reader ... Mr. F.G. Kenyon has been kind enough
to make the notes for 'The Ring and the Book,' but for the rest the
editor alone is responsible." The text is that of the edition of 1889,
1894, but the arrangement is more strictly chronological. The notes are
throughout unnecessary and to be regretted.

II.

REPRINT OF DISCARDED PREFACES TO THE FIRST EDITIONS OF SOME OF
BROWNING'S WORKS

1. Preface to