is dated
up to the very hour--for though he could be so many other things
besides, one of his achievements, for us, will prove to have been that he
could be so "ugly." _That_ would not have been reckoned among his
glories in the Yellow Book-room; but the wheel shall come full
circle--we shall be saying all this, one day, the other way round. For, as
Browning consoles, encourages, and warns us by showing in
_Fifine_,[x:1] each age believes--and should believe--that to it alone
the secret of true art has been whispered.
ETHEL COLBURN MAYNE.
FOOTNOTES:
[x:1] I write far from my books, but the passage will be easily found or
recalled.
11 HOLLAND ROAD,
KENSINGTON, W.
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CONTENTS
PART I
GIRLHOOD
PAGE
INTRODUCTORY
3
I. THE GIRL IN "COUNT GISMOND"
15
II. PIPPA PASSES
I. Dawn: Pippa
23
II. Morning: Ottima
36
III. Noon: Phene
51
IV. Evening; Night: The Ending of the Day 67
III. MILDRED TRESHAM 81
IV. BALAUSTION 93
V. POMPILIA 122
PART II
THE GREAT LADY
"MY LAST DUCHESS," AND "THE FLIGHT OF THE
DUCHESS" 165
PART III
THE LOVER
I. LOVERS MEETING 199
II. TROUBLE OF LOVE: THE WOMAN'S
I. The Lady in "The Glove" 215 II. Dîs Aliter Visum; or, Le Byron De
Nos Jours 224
III. The Laboratory
233
IV. In a Year
237
PART IV
THE WIFE
I. A WOMAN'S LAST WORD 245
II. JAMES LEE'S WIFE
250
I. She Speaks at the Window
254
II. By the Fireside
256
III. In the Doorway
257
IV. Along the Beach
258
V. On the Cliff
261
VI. Reading
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