independent of external, material agencies. In order to make
his argument as powerful as possible, he chose for his mouth-piece
one of the personal followers of Christ, on whom, it might be supposed,
the actual human life of his master had made a permanent
and lively impression. With the details of Biblical criticism
he had nothing to do; his principles were unaffected by discussions
about the authenticity of the various parts of Gospels;
so, in defiance of Strauss, the disciple he chose was that very John,
whose personality, as recognized by long tradition, had been
so much discredited. He showed how even in one of the disciples
the recollection of wonders and signs could be transcended,
and at last obliterated, by a spiritual faith which was sustained
by the needs and faculties of the soul. The poem is, in effect,
an eloquent protest in defence of `the breath and finer spirit
of all knowledge'."

From Mrs. M. G. Glazebrook's paper on `A Death in the Desert',
read before the London Browning Society.

A LIST OF CRITICISMS OF BROWNING'S WORKS.

(Selected from Dr. Frederick J. Furnivall's `Bibliography of
Robert Browning', contained in `The Browning Society's Papers',
Part I., with additions in Part II.)

1833. The Monthly Mag., N. S., V. 7, pp. 254-262: Review of `Pauline',
by W. J. Fox.

1835. The Examiner, Sept. 6, pp. 563-565: on `Paracelsus',
by John Forster.

1835. Monthly Repository, Nov., pp. 716-727: Review of `Paracelsus',
by W. J. Fox.

1836. New Monthly Mag., March, Vol. 46, pp. 289-308:
`Evidences of a New Genius for Dramatic Poetry.--No. 1.'
On `Paracelsus', by John Forster.

1837. Edinburgh Rev., July, Vol. 66, pp. 132-151: `Strafford'.

1848. N. A. Rev., April, Vol. 66, pp. 357-400: B.'s `Plays and Poems',
by James Russell Lowell.

1849. Eclectic Rev., London, 4th S. V. 26, pp. 203-214:
on 1. the `Poems', 2 vols. 1849, and 2. `Sordello', 1840.
A sympathetic and excellent review.

1850. Massachusetts Quarterly Rev., No. XI. June, Art. IV.
`Browning's Poems'. 1. `Poems', 2 vols., Boston, 1850.
2. `Christmas Eve' and `Easter Day', London, 1850.

1850. Littell's Living Age, Vol. 25, pp. 403-409: on `Christmas Eve'
and `Easter Day'.

1857. The Christian Remembrancer, N. S., Vol. 39, pp. 361-390.

1861. North British Rev., May, pp. 350-374: on `The Poems and Plays
of R. B.', by F. H. Evans.

1863. Fraser's Mag., Feb., pp. 240-256.

1863. The Eclectic