The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1889-12-27

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to the Judgment, and gave his mind to some
thing more i'll harmony with the tastes OF
his readers
Browning marriage was a romance. Many
men of genius content themselves with the
ordinary in their loves. Browning a poet,
fell in love with Miss Barrett, a poetess, and
not only a poetess but one with far more
popular appreciation at the time than him.
self. Elizabeth Barrett had then passed the
heyday Of youth, being 81 years old; she was
in bad health, and her father was opposed to
her marriage. Browning, who was three
years younger, was sufficiently infatuated and
romantic to away with her. The spec
tacle of psychologc poet running away
with q poetess verginS on to forty is some
what ridiculous. But this is all there was
ridiculous about the marriage for they made
very happy couple, and were devoted to
each other SO long rs Mrs. Browning lived
For long while Mrs. Brow ming held her
own with the public as against her husband;
indeed, not two decades ago Mr.. Browning
bore some such relation to his wife as a man
of moderate income would bear to wife pos
sessing fortune--such rs that of the Baroness
Burdett- Coutts. But this was not destined to
be always. OF late years Browning has
gained wonderfully in being appreciated and
although his wife ranks among the great
stripped hers.
For ten or twelve years after the marriage
Mrs. Browning produced many Of her best
works. Husband and wife were each in a
measure affected by the other. Browning's
poems became more passionate and more
lofty, while the wife adopted some OF the
roughness Of the husband. Mrs. Browning
lived fifteen years after her marriage; she
died in 1861 at Florence
After her death Browning went to London,
where he was lionized. For many years
star i'll the literary and social world Of Lon
don, he pleased as easily in social intercourse
as with difficulty in his obscure writings.
Briefly stated, Browning's peculiarity-that
which may be called distinctly Browning
consisted in tracing retrospectively the char-
acters of his imagination through acts deter
mined by their own humanity and the bear
ing Of external events. The complaints made
of him ure that in considering the various
springs OF action, the reasonings and doubts
OF his characters, he becomes diffuse and
tiresome.
When Mr.. Browning chose to write for all, ,he
wrote delightfully."-. To oread one OF bis lighter
pieces is like what it was in Charlotte Cush-
mans time to SEQ her in comedy; or to listen
to Wagner's wedding March" in "Lohen-
grin" Browning has delighted the children
for generations to come with the "Pied Piper
of Hamelin.n Then there are few bits OF finer
descriptive writing, intelligible to all, than
SHOW They Brought the Good News from
Ghent to AK"
1sprang to the strrup, and Joris and he;
1ealloped, Dirck galopcd, We galloped all three.
Good speedy cried the watch the gate bolts
undrew.
Speed" echoed the wall to US galloplng through
Behind shut the postern, the lights sank TO rest
And init fGay iuht
Not word to each other; we kept the great pace;
Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing
our place,
1turned in my saddle and made its girths tight,
Then shortened each strrup and set the pique
right,
Rebuckled the check strap. chained Stacker the
bit,
Nor galloped less steadily Roland whit
Twas moonset at starting. but while we drew
nenr
Lokeren the cocks crew, and twilight dawned
clear
At Boom great yellow star came out to sea;
At Duffeld twas morning as plain could be;
And from Mecheln church steeple we heard the
half chime
At Aerschot up eaped Of Il sudden the sun,
And against him tue cattle stood black, every one
To stare through the mist at us galoping past;
With resolute shoulders, each butting away
The haze, as some bluff river headland It's spray.
And his low head and crest, just one sharp ear
bent back
For my voice, and the other pricked out on his
track;
And one eyes black ntelligence-ever that glance
Der its white edge at me, his own master, as
kauce;
And the thick heavy spume fakes which aye and
anon
His 6erce lips shook upward in galloping on.
By l1asselt Dirck groaned; and cried Joris: 'Stay
spur
Your Roos galloped bravely the faults not In her;
Well remember at Aix"-for one heard the quick
wheeze
OF her chest, saw the stretched neck, and stag
gering knees,
And sunk tail and horrible heave OF the dnnk,
As down on her launches she shuddered and
sank
30 ne were left gailoping. Joris md /,
Pact Looz and past Tongres, no cloud In the Bky;
The broad sun above laughed a ptiless laugh;
Meath our feet broke the brittle. bright stnbble
Ike char: -z4.sts.sz=5.5=-54:s-s
Till over by Dalhem dome-spre sprang white,
And tGallop." gasped Joris, 'for ak Is in sight"
allow they'll greet usr'-and all In a moment his
Rolled neck and Group over. lay dead as q stone;
And there was my Roland to bear the whole
weight .ss=2==s =tzzzz
OF the news which alone could save Ak from her
fatc, Fau.-s - - 5Bs .. s
With his uostrils like pits full Of blood to the
And with circles of red for his eye.sockets rim.
Then cast loose my buff coal, each holster let