[Footnote 97: This poem was a personal utterance, provoked by the death
of a relative whom Mr. Browning dearly loved.]

[Footnote 98: Told by Schiller and Leigh Hunt.]

[Footnote 99: Written for and inscribed to a little son of the actor,
William Macready.]

[Footnote 100: A picturesque old church which has since been destroyed.]

[Footnote 101: The "Threatening Tyrant." Suggested by some words in
Horace: 8th Ode, ii. Book.]

[Footnote 102: Mr. Browning is proud to remember that Mazzini informed
him he had read this poem to certain of his fellow-exiles in England to
show how an Englishman could sympathize with them.]

[Footnote 103: A small, square building on one of the quays, in which
the bodies of drowned persons were placed for identification.]




CONCLUDING GROUP.

"DRAMATIC IDYLS." "JOCOSERIA."

"DRAMATIC IDYLS."