Browning's Heroines by Ethel Colburn Mayne
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Title: Browning's Heroines
Author: Ethel Colburn Mayne
Illustrator: Maxwell Armfield
Release Date: April 28, 2007 [EBook #21247]
Language: English
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BROWNING'S
HEROINES
BY ETHEL COLBURN MAYNE
WITH FRONTISPIECE & DECORATIONS
BY MAXWELL ARMFIELD
LONDON
CHATTO & WINDUS
1913
PREFACE
When this book was projected, some one asked, "What is there to say about Browning's heroines beyond what he said himself?"--and the question, though it could not stay me, did chill momentarily my primal ardour. Soon, however, the restorative answer presented itself. "If there were nothing to say about Browning's heroines beyond what he said himself, it would be a bad mark against him." For to _suggest_--to open magic casements--surely is the office of our artists in every sort: thus, for them to say all that there is to say about anything is to show the casement stuck fast, as it were, and themselves battering