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! CURRENT TOPICS IN EUROPE.
Elizabeth Barrel Browning: Hell
Life and WOrks.-Rnssian Ju'
bilee. - Stanley and Emln. =
Iialy's Progress.-Yenice's An
cieBt Palace, Etc.
EUROPE, Dec. ., 1889. [Speeia
correspondence OF the DEsEREI
NEws.l-A new edition of the
"Life and Works Of Elizabeth Bar
ret Browning has just been pub
lished and meets with ready sale,
not merely to the British public but
= likewise 30 their American cousins.
This edition contains number Of
portraits Of Mrs. Browning at diff
ferent periods OF her life. One Of
these is n copy Of painting OF her
at nine years Of age. 1t is 4 curious
ly interesting picture Of little girl
holding n flower in her right hand,
while with the left she turns up
her apron so as TO make a
receptacle for lap full Of flowers
The face is one which might have
forewarned her acquaintances Of
her coming destiny. The eyes have
n depth of eNpressiOn-a sort Of
| look rs Of one who had already /
| thought much, or saw things that /
Others did not see; who might rs |
well have had fairies rs flowers for 4
her companions. No one who |
studies that face will he surprised to 4
hear that the owner Of it composed 4
n poem on "MOrathon" when she
was only fourteen years Of age. BY I
common consent there is a place in
literature at which an ''authoress''
drops that title and becomes an
''author." In the same sense, per-
haps, we ought 20 speak Of Elizabeth
Barrett Browning rs poet. Since
SapphO, no woman has equaled her
in poetic power, and fire, and
plthOs. When Elizabeth Brown
ing commenced 10 write she
soon made it clear that a new
chapter in. England's literary his
tory had been opened, and that n
real poet had arisen. Her work has
been long enough before the world to
enable Us 10 say with certainty that
il has found its place. Her songs
have found admirers wherever the
English language is spoken. They
have entered into our feelings and
become a part Of our social life. ,
The fame Of Mrs. Browning Is as ,
sured. She will take her place as
one of the great poets Of the Vic /
torian age. We need her poems; she [
does not need our criticism or our ,
praise. Her mortal remains now
repOse in the Protestant cemetery OF /
Florence, Italy. n plain yet beauti- :
ful monument has Teen erected over /
her grave, with no other inscription (
except the words Elizabeth Barrett L
That Is sufficient; no '
other is needed. n
1t is just five hundred years since a
he first cannon were used in Russia, O
and on the 2lst Of November the a
fifth centennial was celebrated with o
great p0mp at st. Petersburg. The il
words Of the Car on that occasion q
nave naturally attracted much at I
ention, but they can give satisiac- a
ion only 10 those who do not look e.
-ery far ahead in the worlds poll u
les. 1t is impossible for any hu- al
name person 20 contemplate war Ii
'etween nations, especially on the +
OlOss1l scale, and subject to the bI
yOndrOus conditions under which d
must now be conducted, with Il
ther feelings than those Of I'M c
peakable antipathy and repug- G.
ance. There is no cure for a tr
ioodthir7ty politician so eflectual IL
5 personal experience Of warfare. r
'erhaps il was a beneficent arrange -
tent that the FrancO-pTussian war -
1870 brought princes and states n
len, rs well a soldiers, into the
Qualities Of the carnage. Perhaps II
lis Is the reason why the peace Of
Europe has beer preserved as long
: it has. -
1t is certainly n remarkable cir
that, at the very moment
leXander III. is petitiOning p
eaven TO save him and his people Oh
ON the horrors Of war, his gov
is more active than ever in
lshing forward those ornaments
hich indicate that a terrible war
impending. Everybody knows Te
lat the army OF Russia could be -,
.duced to a peace footing without W
lie Russian empire incurring any -
anger Of invasion. Neither Ger II
any nor Austria, nor Italy nOreven -
ngland would seek to quarrel with 81
ussia, invade her soil, or curtail -
sr territories. BIZ
il is this which renders. not Pa
ustria alone, but the whole world. n
exceedingly vigiiant and scnsi- =
We IN regard to Russian anna Rel
ents. Il is well known how -
Iormous are the military levics Of &c
at vast empire, what immense r.,
ms are spent in pcriecling her sil'
Hilary organization, and what
imposing number OF armed men
e would bring into the field. p
Even the maintenance OF forces, -
ch as Russia has kept under arms
several years past, has been in
mpatible with tie theory that Sc
lSsia is n pacific and conservative
lie, that respects either public
,aties or territorial arrangements. yal
Notwithstanding the professions Of =,
eXander Ill, Russia Is not con-
1T with the formidable military Is
wer she now holds, but is contin- wo
liy adding TO it. The Russian be
mister OF war has just issued an iil!'
Ter for aiming with heavy artil- Ia
y ali the forts in the Black Sea oil !
d the Sea Of AzOE, with the veg
satsst expedition. Large addi- hai
ms are being made to the Carri- I
Is of Odessa and kiel; and the ~
ick Sea fleet Is continually being Hlo
engthenel by fresh gunbOats and 4
peto vessels. Ii Russia were pep
by the fear or usir
ntOR invasion, IL Germany G.
Austria had at any time dru
posed 10 establish the an
mt city of Poland or restore any
the conqueSis of Rus Are
TO their original owners. cum
attitude and their armaments Iair
I'D he Ineligible. As IL is they drea
not he reconciled with any genu- s.or
and passionate love Of peace. Sars
" France continues TO devote posi-
n eNhorbitant sums TO the de- rem