Goethe would have put them into a short lyrical form.

It is impossible not to regret, as we read them, the Browning of the _Dramatic Lyrics_.

Moreover, some of them are needlessly ugly.

_Halbert and Hob_--and in _Jocoseria_--_Donald_, are hateful subjects, and their treatment does not redeem them; unlike the treatment of _Ivan Ivanovitch_ which does lift the pain of the story into the high realms of pity and justice.

Death, swift death, was not only the right judgment, but also the most pitiful.