All or nearly all his poems are character-studies of the deeper sort, and hence the naturalness with which they fall into the form of dramatic monologues. It is true, as Mr. Corson says, that the liberties our poet takes in the collocation of words, the complexity of constructions, and some of his verbal liberties, are of a nature to increase the difficulty the careless reader finds. But there are poems and passages of his which present none of these minor stumbling-blocks, but of which no reader will make anything until he has acquired the poet’s interest in personality, its God-given mission as a force for the world’s regeneration, and its innate intimacy with divine forces. But we believe that with Mr. Corson’s aids-- notes as well as preliminary analyses-- they can be mastered by any earnest student; and certainly few things in literature so well repay the trouble. +F. A. March+, _Prof. in Lafayette Coll_.: Let me congratulate you on having brought out so eloquent a book, and acute, as Professor Corson’s Browning. I hope it pays as well in money as it must in good name. +Rev. Joseph Cook+, _Boston_: Professor Corson’s Introduction to Robert Browning’s Poetry appears to me to be admirably adapted to its purposes. It forms an attractive porch to a great and intricate cathedral. (_Feb. 21, 1887._) +Louise M. Hodgkins+, _Prof. of English Literature, Wellesley Coll._: I consider it the most illuminating textbook which has yet been published on Browning’s poems. (_March 12, 1887._) +F. H. Giddings+, in _“The Paper World,” Springfield, Mass._: It is a stimulating, wisely helpful book. The arguments of the poems are explained in luminous prose paragraphs that take the reader directly into the heart of the poet’s meaning. Chapters on Browning’s obscurity and Browning’s verse clear away, or rather show the reader how to overcome by his own efforts, the admitted difficulties presented by Browning’s style. These chapters bear the true test; they enable the attentive reader to see, as Professor Corson sees, that such features of Browning’s diction are seldom to be condemned, but often impart a peculiar crispness to the expressions in which they occur. The opening chapter of the book is the finest, truest introduction to the study of English literature, as a whole, that any American writer has yet produced. This chapter leads naturally to a profound and noble essay, of which it would be impossible to convey any adequate conception in a paragraph. It prepares the reader for an appreciation of Browning’s loftiest work. (_March, 1887._)