Index, pp. 277-85; Index to First Lines of Shorter Poems, pp.
287-92. Vol. XVII., pp. viii., 288. Asolando, Biographical
and Historical Notes to the Poems. General Index, pp. 289-99;
Index to First Lines of Shorter Poems, pp. 301-307. This
edition contains Browning's final text of his poems.

62. ASOLANDO: FANCIES AND FACTS. By Robert Browning. London: Smith,
Elder & Co., 15 Waterloo Place. 1890, pp. viii., 157. (_Poetical Works_,
1894, Vol. XVII., pp. 1-131.)

Contents:--Prologue. 1. Rosny. 2. Dubiety. 3. Now. 4.
Humility. 5. Poetics. 6. Summum Bonum. 7. A Pearl, a Girl. 8.
Speculative. 9. White Witchcraft. 10. Bad Dreams (i.-iv.).
11. Inapprehensiveness. 12. Which? 13. The Cardinal and the
Dog. 14. The Pope and the Net. 15. The Bean-Feast. 16.
Muckle-mouth Meg. 17. Arcades Ambo. 18. The Lady and the
Painter. 19. Ponte dell' Angelo, Venice. 20. Beatrice
Signorini. 21. Flute-Music, with an Accompaniment. 22.
"Imperante Augusto natus est--." 23. Development. 24. Rephan.
25. Reverie. Prologue.

63. THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BROWNING. With Portraits. In two
volumes. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 15 Waterloo Place, 1896. Vol. I.,
pp. viii., 784; Vol. II., pp. vii., 786.

The Editor's note, after p. viii., signed "Augustine Birrell," says:
"All that has been done is to prefix (within square brackets) to some of
the plays and poems a few lines explanatory of the characters and events
depicted and described, and to explain in the margin of the volumes the
meaning of such words as might, if left unexplained, momentarily arrest