The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-06-13
. y,,,rT To ROBERT BROWNING.


~" with the United States
Rev. NJ. D. Conway sends to the Bos'
,or Commonly wealth the following inter,
esting account of visit to the poet
Browning: /,
nThe,e was no man in England that
desired to see so much as Robert Brown
ing. others, | know, set on a higher
pedest.l the noble woman so lately taker
from his side others arc more enchanted
by the prince of artists, Tennyson, II
whom oil the old minnesingers seem e
have appeared; but the author of Para
celsas' i hold 10 be the most powerful
the author of 'Colombe's Birthday the
most tender, the author Of 'Pippa RAISES
the most dramatic, Of all poets since
Shakespeare.
.son.e have found Browning obscure,
and if .sordclo' were the only thing he
had written there would be justification
in it. But in his other works one has
only to remember how exceedingly dra'
matte Browning is--implying at every
step that his reader sees the picture, the
situation, the movement between his
lines--to find him remarkably simply
writer. The obvious, says Archbishop
Hare, SIS frequently lost sight OF IN GU,
search for the profound This is good
hint to those who undertake to read
these poems. / remember seeing. ten
wears ago, sCoiombe's Birthday perform
ed at the Howard Atheneum in Boston
1t was brought out by Miss Davenport al
her benefit The theater was crowded BY
an audience who came because she was
favorite, and clearly knew nothing OF the
play. Miss Davenport had most careful
lY studied, not only her own part OF Co
lombe, bu. every part, and the perform
anee was finely sustained throughout -
And when saw that audience spell
bound--saw the tears rolling down tn
cheeks of many who had never heard o
the plar or its author before-I though
TO myself that for minds able to get up il
themselves scenery and footlights Brown
ing always writes. He does not write TO
those who perpetually cry to their author
Give US of your Imagination, for our
has gone out but for those who hav
that sac red oil ready for an alliance wit
his loren.
DROWNING HOUSE.
Entering handsome but unostenta
tious residence on Warwick Crescent, j
the environs of London, 1 was shown in
to a very pleasant room. Over the man
tle-piece was a large aud very old Italia
picture, such as might have been take
FROM some old church altar, which SCENE
10 be representation Of the Father, So
and Holy Ghost. A quaint piece Of AT
Gent tapestry adorned QUE side Of tn
room, aud picture Of Christ from one {
the old masters was on another wall.
could not help noticing upon the tabl
cards of invitation from Russells, Paine,
stons, aud many others Of the nobility, il
dicating that there has been q chang
with the British sristocracy in regard
the literati Formerly literary distin
ton was not sufficient to assure the l,igl
est social position in this country. The
is no doubt that the aristocracy will ga
much by the change, but whether the Il
erature of the country will is more doub
full"
HIS PERSONAL APPEARANCE.
presently in came the poet, his ia
shining with welcome, in my person,
those friends OF his iu America who b.
given me letters to him. 1t was a ralh
gloomy day without, but his countenan
bore with it all the light and warmth Of
sun. There have been few persons who
writings have loved whom / have fou
personally equal to them, and l am
ways ready Tor disappointment in Il
direction. But there was none here.
Never saw | so fne a brow. Whcr
saw it l seemed to hear Pippa singh
over again:
"a King lived long ago,
10 the morning. ef th- world
" hen the earth was nieher heaven than now
And the king's locks cnried,
Dispa ring Ger = forehead full
"A The milk-uhte space 'twIat born aud h
OF some sAerihcal bull
oniy calm babe new born
"This was that royal forehead
Mr.. Carlyle's millennium should come no
when real kings shall be crowned
should see all those crown jewels VIII
CLEAN in the tower of London shining
this brow III they did not lose their Il
tire in this magnificent expanse.
MIR. BROWNING ON THE WAR.
Scarcely were the greetings o,
when Mr.. Browning introduced the S,
ject OF our war with Slavery for
appreciates it as such. An, how | vi
that the Round Table Knights Of Freed
IN America could have been present
see the fervor and hear the eloauer
with which he uttered his sympathy "
our cause, and the almost passionate
hemenee with which he denounced {
Southern sympathizers in England
holds our cause TO be sacred beyond ey
other now undergoing its ordeal, ant
have DOT very definite, to be su
hope that he will soon utter his sympa
from his own throne Of Poetry.
+" He spoke with much feeling of
many tokens of friendship and interes
his poetry which he had received Fl
America, and still more earnestly of
which had greeted his wife poems.
Ills SON.
Whilst sat there in came his so
the boy whose face, surrounded by pol
curis, almost Ike girls, has been Il
mar 10 Inc through some photograph