_BALAUSTION_ Among the women whom Browning made, Balaustion is the crown.

So vivid is her presentation that she seems with us in our daily life.

And she also fills the historical imagination.
One would easily fall in love with her, like those sensitive princes in the _Arabian Nights_, who, hearing only of the charms of a princess, set forth to find her over the world.

Of all Browning's women, she is the most luminous, the most at unity with herself.

She has the Greek gladness and life, the Greek intelligence and passion, and the Greek harmony.