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Robert Browning, Chief Post of the Age : an Essay addressed primarily to Beginners in the Study of Browning's Poems. By William G. Kingsland. (Jarvis and Son.)—Mr. Kingaland is a genuine admirer of Mr. Browning, and though he is too much disposed to praise equally all that Mr. Browning writes, to ignore the extreme roughness, and even clumsiness and obscurity of many of his productions, and to insist that a watchman's rattle is musical if Mr. Browning springs it, no one will get anything bat good from this interesting little essay. Mr. Kingsland does not seem always to know the difference between poetry and prose, but he does know how rich in imaginative vision Mr. Browning is, and his essay will give to the young the same know- ledge. An admirable photograph of Mr. Browning is prefixed.
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