Nordelle as Brown

From the painting by Rudolf Lehmann, in the National Portrait

Gallery, London.

ang it told in the 1. balf a dozen excel

tre passages of great the fort when once

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faults of expression were many, but with care for a man or book such would be surmounted, and without it what avails the faultlessness of either."

It is possible that " care for the man," for the later Browning of Pippa Passes, and of Men and Women, has done more than any change of popular taste to stimulate interest in Sordello, which is, after all, the product of boyhood.