_Prince Hohenstiel Schwangau_ explains and defends the expediency by which Napoleon III.

directed his political action.

_The Inn Album_, _Red Cotton Nightcap Country_, are taken from actual stories that occurred while Browning was alive, and _Fifine at the Fair_ analyses a common crisis in the maturer lives of men and women.

The poems thus keep close to special cases, yet--and in this the poet appears--they have an extension which carries them beyond the particular subjects into the needs and doings of a wider humanity.

Their little rivers run into the great sea.