AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF ROBERT BROWNING'S WORKS, WITH THEIR ORDER-NUMBERS AND DATES OF PUBLICATION. ("A, ""An, 99 66 Le," and "The" are not reckond as initial words. An acute accent to a number, as 151′, means that its poem is part of the Work 151. The Prologue and Epilogue to a single Work, are taken as part of it; those to a set of Poems, as separate works.) The Society will consist of all Subscribers of 21s. a year. It will meet once a month from October to June (except in December) at 8 p.m. on the 4th Friday of every such month at University College, Gower St., W.C., for the hearing and discussion of a Paper or Address on some of Browning's poems or his characteristics. The Society's best Papers, and Reports of its Discussions, will be printed either in full or in a Monthly Abstract sent to all members, as funds allow. Till June 23, 1882, the Society will be managed by a Committee of its Founders and Promoters. At that day's Meeting, after the experience of the first Session, the Constitution of the Society will be settled, and its Officers elected for the ensuing year. The Committee are anxious to add to their number those students of Browning in or out of London who will undertake to get up Browning Reading-Clubs in their respective districts, after the example of Prof. Corson, who has directed one in his University (Cornell) for the last four years. It appeals only to thought- The Society may not be a large or permanent one. ful men and women willing to study Browning's works. its Meetings next autumn. It has promises of some Papers for its first Session, but desires more. Its few present Members hope that some, at least, of the many to whom Browning's works have been a help and strength, will join them in their endeavour to know him better, and bring more minds under his influence. To remove misunderstandings that have arisen, the Committee state that any one joining the Society is not in any way pledgd to indiscriminate admiration of BROWNING, but is only supposed to hold that the poet is profound enough in thought, noble enough in character and feeling, eloquent and interesting enough in expression, to deserve more thorough study, and a far wider circle of readers, than he has yet had. The Committee wish for frankness of expression in all Papers, &c.; and they give notice from the first that every writer in the Society's publications is to be held as speaking for himself or herself alone, without any responsibility whatever on the Committee's part. Names of persons willing to join the Society should be sent, with or without subscriptions, to F. J. FURNIVALL, 3, St. George's Square, Primrose Hill, London, N.W., or to the Honorary Secretary MISS E. H. HICKEY, Clifton House, Pond Street, Hampstead, N.W., or to any Member of the Committee. The Inaugural Meeting of the Society will be held at University Coll., Gower St., W.C., at 8 p.m., on Friday, Oct. 28, 1881, when an Address "On the Characteristics of Browning's Philosophy and Poetry" will be deliverd by the Rev. J. Kirkman, M.A. Hon. Sec.: MISS E. H. HICKEY, Clifton House, Pond Street, Hampstead, N.W. Bankers: THE NATIONAL BANK, High St., Camden Town, London, N.W. Publishers: N. TRÜBNER & Co., 57 and 59, Ludgate Hill, London, E.C. Agents for America: HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & Co., Boston, Mass., U. S. A. |