any conspicuous recognition,

an over-pays

2 ment may be made, if there be ouch another munificent appreciator as I have been priveleged to find in which case let them, even if mon deserving, be equally grateful.

I have not observed anything in need

་་

of correction in the notes. The little Invlet

A

and

"

Last

supper, mentioned

the

gone artiny long ago from S. Spirite : it turned up, accoun

=ding to report

in some score corner, while I was in Florence, and was at once acquired by a thanger. I saw it, gemino

great beauty (Page 156.)

"A canon," in murie, is a piece wherein the

subject is repeated - in various keys = and being strictly obeyed in the repetition, becomes the "Canon - the imperativi law _ I what

follows. Fifty of
a notable peal: ħ manage

ouch parts would be

an achievement for

And now

three is

indeed

enough

a good musician.

here is christmas & all my

wishes go to you and this Corson

of my

до

Fister also. She was indeed i

2

=fering from grave indisposition in the sunimer, but is rappily, moresd. I could not venture, under the incomer I et pose her convalescence

:stances,

to the accidents of foreign travel: Lence our contenting ourselves with

again induced to visit us

? Present

will remember me

or absent, you
always, I must, as

Yours most appectionately
Robert Browning.

Quanta subtilitate ipsa corda hominum reserat, intimos mentis recessus explorat, varios animi motus perscrutatur. Quod ad tragediam antiquiorem attinet, interpretatus est, uti nostis omnes, non modo Aschylum quo nemo sublimior, sed etiam Euripidem quo nemo humanior; quo fit ut etiam illos qui Græce nesciunt, misericordia tangat Alcestis, terrore tangat Hercules. Recentiora argumenta tragica cum lyrico quodam scribendi genere coniunxit, duas Musas et Melpomenen et Euterpen simul veneratus. Musicæ miracula quis dignius cecinit? Pictoris Florentini sine fraude vitam quasi inter crepuscula vesperascentem coloribus quam vividis depinxit. Vesperi quotiens, dum foco adsidemus, hoc iubente resurgit Italia. Vesperi nuper, dum huius idyllia forte meditabar, Cami inter arundines mihi videbar vocem magnam audire clamantis, Πὰν ὁ μέγας οὐ τέθνηκεν. Vivit adhuc Pan ipse, cum Marathonis memoria et Pheidippidis velocitate immortali consociatus." Eulogium pronounced by Mr. J. E. Sandys, Public Orator at the University of Cambridge, on presenting Mr. Browning for the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, June 10, 1879.