For while an Englishman may be enthusiastic about England, or indignant against England, it never occurred to any living Englishman to be interested in England.

Browning was, like every other intelligent Aryan, interested in the Jews; but if he was related to every people in which he was interested, he must have been of extraordinarily mixed extraction.

Thirdly, there is the yet more sensational theory that there was in Robert Browning a strain of the negro.

The supporters of this hypothesis seem to have little in reality to say, except that Browning's grandmother was certainly a Creole.

It is said in support of the view that Browning was singularly dark in early life, and was often mistaken for an Italian.