* * * * * INDEX. A. "Abt Vogler," 130, 172, 202 "A Face," 130 "A Forgiveness," 130 "After," 130 "Agamemnon of Æschylus," 182 "A Grammarian's Funeral," 129, 168 "A Likeness," 130 Alma ----, Letter to, 191 "Amphibian," 130 Ancona, 150 "Andrea del Sarto," 130, 168 "Andromeda," 25 "Another way of Love," 130 "Any Wife to any Husband," 129, 168 "A Pearl," 130 "Apparent Failure," 130, 172 "Appearances," 130 Appearance, Browning's personal, 74, 161 Aprile, 107, 204, 207 "Aristophanes' Apology," 182 "Ask not one least word of praise," 130 "Asolando," 22, 39, 128, 131, 182, 196, 207, 210 Asolo, 58, 192 "A Soul's Tragedy," 89, 91, 179 "Athenæum, The," 73 "A Toccata of Galuppi's," 130, 168 "Aurora Leigh," 118, 152, 166, 169, 170 B. Bagni di Lucca, 157, 165 Bailey's "Festus," 114 "Balaustion's Adventure," 182, 190 Balzac, 36, 114, 138, 185, 203, 206 Barrett, Arabella, 54, 174 Barrett, Edward, 136 Barrett, Mr., 144, 161, 170 "Beatrice Signorini," 131 Beautiful in Verse, the, 206-7 Beethoven, 209 "Before," 130 "Bells and Pomegranates," 76, 81, 138 "Ben Karshook's Wisdom," 167 Berdoe, E., 68, 204, 207 "Bifurcations," 130 "Bishop Blougram," 93, 179 Blake, William, 94 "Blot on the 'Scutcheon, A," 79, 88, 89, 90, 91, 206 Bossuet and Browning, 191 Browning, Clara, 21 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett: Browning's early influence on, 92; born March 4, 1809, 136; her girlhood and early work, 136; death of brother, 136; residence in London, 137; "The Cry of the Children," 137; friendships with Horne and Kenyon, 137; her appreciation of Browning's poems, 138; correspondence with him, 138; engagement, 139; acquaintance with Mrs. Jameson, 143; marriage, 145; Mr. Barrett's resentment, 144; journey to Paris, 145; thence to Pisa, 146; Browning's love for his wife, 146; "Sonnets from the Portuguese," 147; in spring to Florence, 150; to Ancona, _via_ Ravenna, in June, 150; winter at Casa Guidi, 152; "Aurora Leigh," 152; description of poetess, 153, 154; birth of son in 1849, 157; "Casa Guidi Windows," 159; 1850, spring in Rome; proposal to confer poet-laureateship on Mrs. Browning, 159, 161; 1851, visits England, 161; winter in Paris, 162; she is enthusiastic about Napoleon III. and interested in Spiritualism; summer in London, 162; autumn at Casa Guidi, 162; winter 1853-4 in Rome, 1856 "Aurora Leigh," death of Kenyon, legacies, 170; 1857, death of Mr. Barrett, 170; 1858, delicacy of Mrs. Browning, 171; July 1858, Brownings travel to Normandy; "Two Poems by Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning," 1854, 173; 1860, "Poems before Congress," and death of Arabella Barrett, 160; "North and South," 174; return to Casa Guidi, and death on 28th June 1861, 175, 206 Browning, Reuben, 18, 19, 20 Browning, Robert: born in London in 1812, 11, 13, 19; his literary and artistic antecedents and contemporaries, 12-14; his parentage and ancestry, 15, 17-19;