Fr PAGES 9 TO 14, XX HH Ld When Robert Browning's "'Howvdello puibhikhod in eis, th clared that he understood only the fitst line of the poem "Who will ma sordello's story told" and Ene "Wha would has heard Sor story told --and that lines: lied, This the Mrowninyg that in infinite variptions ba panded into. a tradition, until are people who have never read a fo af hus pons wha complain of his ob seurity: Now that the English-speak ing world is on the eve of eslebrating frowning's sentonary, for he at Camberdell, in the south of don, on May 7th, 1%12-now Qt to be time to let that old 'traditior have a rest. Pass it an to Teen Maeterinek, and let us Robert thonning is nol essentially any more obsoure than any other ter wha ywelers 10 write ahoul thing that the average man Knows nothing of, and employs a style that clear to himsell apparintly to rogeie po clarification. to the average mun. Gilbert KR, Chesterton when he Sid that © Sod greatest compliment ever paid to average man Awd the average man ough to re turn the compliment hy taking a littl trouble 10 learafwhat Browning has to sway to him. The firet glep in to under gud of the poet's if. A a eadiut ek his {athe wire hoth clerks in the Bank of Vang tae: his winthér was of mingled Scotch and Gorntan extraction. Wits Epp son hoth 1% Deen en ther was open f.on seein on admit that wri nos hese facts explain a great deal-above all they explain bie delight in meta phygies aad the trick of the telegraph- ie code in his writing, the two titings that have combined to get him the reputation of ohsenrity. The poet's father was fond of me dieval mysticism: and rabbinical love; his mother was a natural musician of great gilis. She was once playing soith (0 herself in the twilight when she heard a sound « in the: room and turned aréund: a moment later the little boy was fn her arms convilsive Iy begring her to "Play ! Play 1" That same little Tad was in those days beginning to browse through a Hbrars where Walpole gal -V plaice, the "Em. blems" of Quaries pind Mandeyille's "Fable of the Bees," gave his minds bent toward speculation and intro- spection. The first book he bought with his own money. was Ossian' Poems. The book he appears to have read most nssiduousty the English Bible, for all his poems and saturated with the diction and imagery of the King Jumes Version, Hezekigh's phrase, *'T will go softly all my vears," for ex ample," is used Wo less "than three time in "The Ring and the Book." Two poeta of his youth also exerted a deep influence upon him--Byron and Shelley. It is of Shelley, the fiery mornind star of © the nineteenth cen tury, that he wrote those beautiful lines : Ah, did vou ones see Shelley plain, Aud did ho stop 'and speak lo you? And dud von speak to him again How strange it seems amd pew ! The people whe tomplain of Drown ings obselirity have never rend! this poe, nor { "The Pied Piper of Hame lin," wor "How « {hey Brought the Good News From Ghent To Aix" i i ---- The Browning Love Story. The story of Robert Browning's marriage to Elizabeth Barecit, which hax beeir called "the most exquisite romance of modern, life," fx far bette known than any of Robert Browning's poets, "All the world loves a lover," and here we such un ratty wel ae the midst of aba age that it bids pe ar = to the end of w time FOMRRCes as that " i trice, Pet: varch and his a The British poet Jswwever, wi of amore practical turn than the two Haliang, who were con: tent to stand afar off and see their innmoralas un 'to other men. Yet he had aw even Hoeater impediment to _ b ayereome than a rival lover. Elim: the | joke © KINGSTON, ONTARIO, - 3 Lrgriet - ~~ Dre 177 Asolo, Brownings Best . Beloved 7lglien ion' are not incom the real of his letter the bw in happiness "We will Jive SAVE In Oh dud. | fitieen hinppy andr domestic i w patible yess could } Lid And they or | | swer," he | i an as mortals frowning thirty forty-one they It v courtship that began correspondence; along slowly spuaintance, rd Ups world when it eulminated Just to think of tif had barked house the elope ment were wins hve | bride when were | rind. 1 wis moved to person: ul ed all the in romance little stole hn hog they of th pet out 15 LEE Poe would have been did not bark, they turned prsently in Patis, and thence went the village where Petrarch had Pere out in denthless sonnets his love im Laura--who married to anothe min and the mother of eleves children. Most of the remaining years of the poet-pair in ltaly. at his beloved Florence in In Mrs. Browning wrote the "'S From the Portu guese," and he Ring And The Book dog 1 uy a linsco. The and so was was were Asolo, Italy, onnet "The spent in oF tome, His Robust Philosophy. Despite his fondness for the hy ways yruers Of history and philgsaphy despite the sentimental vein that ie revealed in the correspondence with Elizabeth tarrett.. Robert Browning was essentially (healthy and fine Priton, and his poems have the virility that marks Whitman and and masen sane and of his sanest and keenest said ! "His intellect was Eoglish, and had the English faults as well as the Eng lsh excellencics. His optimism was Fnghish: his stopdiast fighting quality, his unyielding dnepgy, his © directness, is desire to get at the root of things, vere Fnglish. His 'religion was the seellent Eoglish compromise or vath- ww halanes of -- dofima, practice' and spicitnality which laymen mike for their own ifs. His hold sense of per- sonal freedom was English. © His con. dance wp his theories, whether of faith or art, was English; bis rough: ness of form was positively early Teu- tonic." In Wis boyhood he had been a dvtamer who ran after Gipsy cara vans and went to the woods to listen ctiticy, has further on in life, Lockhart was able to say to him: "1 like Browning: he isn't at all hike a literary man." This is in Keeping with an Famuziig «tory that Browning told on himsel at times. He was visited by the Chinese minister and his attaches; Overvothe by the impressive. array of dignitaries, he asked: "To what am 1 judebted for this reat, losin? The "You 4 igmas," Shaking the ma very few besides, Stbhpford Brooke, one | 'Drink becomes distasteful to the nightingale; when he had got | {mari v. |g winch Lhe Locl Browsing gE In which Browning wrote The lone or orow ming, marrimblon Crescent Padding clon rugged ' But perhaps the and breadth of most strikingly the : tragedian Mrs Browning had both died actor had not mplieits frowning shown in the meet Macready, and Mrs. The poet been with after Macready and the at on the be f HE AVY DRINKER CURED. Samaria Cured Him Others. 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Zr zd Delis Bea ried Sai grecment in the had Mae When ol Win hou hyushed | Ly Oi "Oh, i ment wa shook his Crisd onty, Browning's he 10 3, when was 20 way" inder the spell of | by this fragment, vs on till Shelley en 80, the Tue another poet, and I divine passed to 0 transcribing the Browning Asolando," was pub- 12th, 1889 It was a peculiar fo the an damn the to that vs is shown b of Rossetto entire British ok young poem from Museum verse, «1 on Devember the poet's death. of copy hook i the day not to write r vhiby his i becoming in the homes of mi he ind ght readers preferved con | is quer his public to know ev le who bou his books did s he Ring ¢ me Ey One was interested in them Wd because "The este Book' is his greatest The this the he gener and i i | ] story rk write Une passed he "square ehinracteristic we came to told hie poem { has often Leen June | Floren: square stall * which warm through chanced to old yellow he bought It contain of the Franceschini wr « the gertn of the poem of the murder of Pompilia reports] murder case the twelve book different people {day e he in arket upon ! book the when soe an t ed story Aer, I'he the which story bes for nie from inclading and the in the of the tell the points of his pro is t world, | iM | poem different story nine the murderer and wed Pope who verdict Ow j view, | i} he final victim notinces "Very wis affectionate and delightful," Tennyson's verdict upon Brown ing after a dinner together Ths work, which appeired meroed winning of the ro rki on Browning's neetic pemis. it his dead vife, {traved in th» ch Pom 'Had Elizabeth," he sil, Rave written "The Ring and the Book." And hencctorth he of whose! works during six months an sive) le eupy had been sold was account-| td among the great bards of Eng! fand. Chesterton, in 1868, general | supreme monument to has Por | of the sainted} I never known | "1 could never be of is a whom he racter not who in ore place calls] tis work hi more than a sublime] detective st "oealls it in' another }} tthe great te of the npe'"' i The Fyture of Browning Will. Browning, despite his. unden- inkle greatness, never became popular? He did not desire popularity MeV declsred that he had no istsstion of, writing poetry that would do instead of a cigar or a game of dominoes for an idle man. While he did not st up deliberately 10 be the hith! iricet of the wiintelligib.e, as & har Yes Mackay caMed him, he has writ ten a few things of the oppressive obviousness of loom and LL" Will the world troihla to diz far the cold that licx busied in the erste soil ? The world is doiny #6 Although he is, the despair of trowslators--ihe meat Aranslaiable of all poets--iis fame is spreading into other lands . i SATURDAY, _MAY 4, and tenary a and ' hee 1 wy the first ever apple early cultural He and {famous word iginally 'er in costards," gin to the { period deed, _1912. His cree uth ar d he peri ond and we," te War, of its mand an pleas Pippa Liod 8 in Al's well become w bey th and reg ods pag of ms Suinhburee pal si wsamism of Byron | } I Imth, to Elizabeth store of y strength foe le Sees Fhe Browping fd, but an josii Robert Barrott the two poets, fotor ot rec 8 god even as Barrett ar. elas healing {rom his SETI, 0 { v febrile His an and be ge ifratiqn We up + der of Ate na decline fame son s uo longer! ton Browning, the sob of himself 1 on Painter | tal, told | Last days | Wikt Browniag<." White | thw vang row se in hans oir mn story which + 8 is ried Fhe reading ¥ came tr raed marched bre ie Never doubted clouds r eh tag's hook on * tie puct. was pre of his "Ej ilogne,"' Une slond from ofs volume the to the st poem he words who nee his back bat st reward, vould break, fog dreamed, thou right wns I triumph, are hatlled worsted, wrong won ve fall to ht bettir, Niger to wake flere the poet most say 1 ruth, And it, Held rise, paused Bile vet £s £0 shall bngMeh Seems 15, it wed the HISTORY OF THE APPLE. { Romans the tecognizo] Value of Fruit, hough Saxon word, and | hanged "avppel,' red ted apple 1s shohitly form ix but » V from the riginal Romans generally first fruit, the having hue doubt towards calti ie with the to and first ittempted in this London Globe. At monks so owe in the the them, recognize \ ol the to owe the efforts vation country; say y later date th to whom we <0 Much of } Bpe- | of all afterward made a the apple, and developmant things, of worthy of note pin, Oslin | mane: useful 'ial windy that the apple, first Arbroath pip- | or was either first ively culti- | ALbey famou 1c mtrodice exter vated by the monks of the Aherbrothwick Another the Nanpareil, ben prought from Fra in the time of Queen Fhe origin of still gurdens probably dutes time of the riety, said ice Hy Mary, man « eultivy ted in back to aid the fact that | the Normans paid (particular to this fruit no dou mang names the labels in traly entirely variety--at any first mentioned writings. Turner refers to it the only apple alluded to in the hori of the I ith it appears as the adds that fruiterers' whether 18 commonly Conquest, wtennon { for the | overgl | | ounts be dis a French to the orqhiard British apple cultivated on Perhap that the wa was cus tard rate, this is name 18 nt 7 records oon tury. "Castard, it is 80 referred to bills of the there were other of apple known or it "coster-monger,"' where in | jou | equally 'at that ithe yent sorts the time not, is significant our | which was or "a dea its « famous apple of The custard apple was should mow wall a its name implies it plain enough that apples rege rded more as material ior dishes than as dessert. The bitterness | of the fruit, which made it unpalatalde when eaten "an naturel," must have taken many years to remove Fhe | dessert apple proper is to have been practically unkno until the reign of Henry VIII, whose time | attention was this "costard-monger,"' evidently or owes ri the what | Heooker"- it most we in and is | first cooked | were said wn m paid branch of orchard development The pippins, said to have been so called because it was possible the the pips and to obtain eatable fruit | without having to grafting were brought from France, to the omunisant Fuller, year of Henry VIIL's rei century later they most orchard owners, vefors these French varieties he "Nou shall see arbor of may great to which are to raise trees from or setxds, sO recourse according the 16th | and half 5 | by Shallow | in on, were grown Justice to whet mine otchard, | will eat a last own grafting," infer that [a where, mn an we year pippin om which we cases: it was found desirable even the pippins The golden pippin, is said, however, to have | been raised in this country Parham | Park, famous, perhaps, for its beromry than for iis | frit { Cider, of brewed in man: but the day has 's mine in some to "renat, graft or at in Sussex, to-day more course, is still commonly | parts of the country, one by when every jincmer of importance owned his cider | press and regarded ing of most autumn brew that beverage of the | important functions of the year, | Exeept in a few countries, the old vid- | er orchards are more or less allowed to run to rack™and ruins now.udavas, while the famous winter beverages of | our forefathers, also made from the | juice of the apple, and which Was | known as "lambswool," is, one be lieves, gverywhere forgoiten. But the recipe for making this beverage, which tis said to have been preserved, and ans one at liberty to experiment with pulpe of the roasted apple, in | number four or five, according to the greatness of the apples (especially the pomewater), mixed in a wing qnart of faire water, and laboured together un til it comes to be as apples and ale, 'which we call lambswool." But the old-time use of the apple did wot end here, for, as Rerade as sures us, "there ix an ommtment made with the pulp of apples and swine's grease awd rosewnter, which is weed fo beautify the face and take away the roughness of the skin: it is mlled in shops pomatam, of the apple wherend it is made." the fs one | a SECOND SECTION. PE-RU- NA PROMPTLY RELIEVES A Case of Dreadful Suffering Which Had Continued For Months. dn dccount of a Remarkable Recovery Given By Mr. Alfred Wood, Teacher of @ Private School at Launceston, Tasmania. MR. AND MRS. ALFRED WOOD, Mr. Alfred Wood, who has a private school at 22 Frederick street, Laun- ceston, Tasmanis (Australia), has been a teacher for 87 years under the Educational Department of Taamanis. He writes, concerning his wile's case, as follows: "My wife was suffering for months from gastro-enteritis, and was given up by her medical attendant, "By good fortune I was induced to try Peruna in her case, and I can truth: fully state that from the first dose her dreadful suffering ceased; and after taking five bottles she is permanently cur OW does Peruna make such €xtra-| Asa remedy for stomach and bowel ordinary cures as above recited ? | disease, the fame of Peruna is undoubts By simply aronsing the forces of ©dly destined to become greater (han Nature to throw off the diseasod action, | that of any other medicine in the world, Peruna contains no magio and doss| A groat many caves [ike that above res mot operate in any mysteriots way, but | ferred to have found Psruna of untold st does help Nature to combat disease, value when no other help seemed of any avail. and thus magy times comes to the res- | Pes a { e-ru-na fc: a cue of the patient in some important : waste indigestion. isis | Mr. Donald Robb, Jr, 16 Wrights . . o 8 NOY: $e There is always a time in the course Ay Halifax, Nova 8c ofia, member £ any disease when a little help goos a Independent Order of Forresters, writess any "While on a visit to Hoston, 1 mus Ee Way. sales a7e bopiuntng to de- have eaten yomething that did not agree scend, when one ounce more would de- I & terrible case of termine the fate of the pationt, a little "Peruns wis rec mended to me 1ift will turn the scales in favor of the and afer using three bottles I was patient. enticely cured. 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