CONTENTS Page [LIFE OF BROWNING] [vii] [BROWNING AS POET] [x] [APPRECIATIONS] [xx] [CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF BROWNING'S WORKS] [xxiv] [BIBLIOGRAPHY][xxvii] [The Pied Piper of Hamelin] [1] [Tray] [15] [Incident of the French Camp] [17] ["How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix"] [19] [Hervé Riel] [22] [Pheidippides] [30] [My Star] [40] [Evelyn Hope] [41] [Love among the Ruins] [43] [Misconceptions] [47] [Natural Magic] [48] [Apparitions] [49] [A Wall] [50] [Confessions] [51] [A Woman's Last Word] [53] [A Pretty Woman] [55] [Youth and Art] [58] [A Tale] [61] [Cavalier Tunes] [67] [Home-Thoughts, from the Sea] [70] [Summum Bonum] [71] [A Face] [72] [Songs from Pippa Passes] [73] [The Lost Leader] [75] [Apparent Failure] [77] [Fears and Scruples] [80] [Instans Tyrannus] [82] [The Patriot] [85] [The Boy and the Angel] [87] [Memorabilia] [91] [Why I am a Liberal] [92] [Prospice] [93] [Epilogue to "Asolando"] [94] ["De Gustibus—"] [96] [The Italian in England] [98] [My Last Duchess] [105] [The Bishop Orders his Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church] [107] [The Laboratory] [113] [Home Thoughts, from Abroad] [115] [Up at a Villa—Down in the City] [116] [A Toccata of Galuppi's] [122] [Abt Vogler] [126] [Rabbi Ben Ezra] [133] [A Grammarian's Funeral] [143] [Andrea del Sarto] [149] [Caliban upon Setebos] [161] ["Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came"] [174] [An Epistle] [183] [Saul] [196] [One Word More][224] [NOTES][235] [ILUSTRATION: Robert Browning] [271][page vii]