'Jocoseria', and 'Ferishtah's Fancies' [10] Browning, Robert: 1881-87--the Browning Society; Browning's attitude in regard to it; similar societies in England and America; wide diffusion of Browning's works in America; lines for the gravestone of Mr. Levi Thaxter; President of the New Shakspere Society, and member of the Wordsworth Society; Honorary President of the Associated Societies of Edinburgh; appreciation of his works in Italy; sonnet to Goldoni; attempt to purchase the Palazzo Manzoni, Venice; Saint-Moritz; Mrs. Bloomfield Moore; at Llangollen; loss of old friends; Foreign Correspondent to the Royal Academy; publication of 'Parleyings' [15] Browning, Robert: his character--constancy in friendship; optimism and belief in a direct Providence; political principles; character of his friendships; attitude towards his reviewers and his readers; attitude towards his works; his method of work; study of Spanish, Hebrew, and German; conversational powers and the stores of his memory; nervous peculiarities; his innate kindliness; attitude towards women; final views on the Women's Suffrage question [13] Browning, Robert: his last years--marriage of his son; his change of abode; symptoms of declining strength; new poems, and revision of the old; journey to Italy: Primiero and Venice; last winter in England: visit to Balliol College; last visit to Italy: Asolo once more; proposed purchase of land there; the 'Lines to Edward Fitzgerald'; with his son at Palazzo Rezzonico; last illness; death; funeral honours in Italy; 'Asolando' published on the day of his death; his burial in Westminster Abbey; the purport and tendency of his work [16] Browning, Robert: letters to--Bainton, Mr. George (Coventry) [1] Blagden, Miss Isa [12] Fitz-Gerald, Mrs. [8] Flower, Miss [2] Fox, Mr. [4] Haworth, Miss E. F. [3] Hickey, Miss E. H. [1] Hill, Mr. Frank (editor of the 'Daily News') [2] Hill, Mrs. Frank [1] Keep, Miss [3] Knight, Professor (St. Andrews) [5] Lee, Miss (Maidstone) [1] Leighton, Mr. (afterwards Sir Frederic) [4] Martin, Mrs. Theodore (afterwards Lady) [2] Moulton-Barrett, Mr. G. [2] Quaire, Madame du [1] Robertson, Mr. John (editor of 'Westminster Review', 1838) [1] Scott, Rev. Dr. [1] Skirrow, Mrs. Charles [4] Smith, Mr. G. M. [3] Browning, Robert: Works of--'A Blot in the 'Scutcheon' [2] 'A Death in the Desert' [2] 'Agamemnon' [1] 'Andrea del Sarto' [1] 'Aristophanes' Apology' [1] 'Artemis Prologuizes' [1] 'Asolando' [5] 'At the Mermaid' [2] 'A Woman's Last Word' [1] 'Bad Dreams' [1] 'Balaustion's Adventure' [3] 'Bean Stripes' [1] 'Beatrice Signorini' [1]