Some amount of overlapping and repetition, it may be added, in the analytical chapters the plan of the book rendered it impossible wholly to avoid.
I am indebted to a friend, who wishes to be nameless, for reading the proofs, with results extremely beneficial to the book.
UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER, _January 1905_.
CONTENTS.
PAGE PREFACE vii PART I.
BROWNING'S LIFE AND WORK.
CHAP.
I.EARLY LIFE.

_PARACELSUS_ 1 II.

ENLARGING HORIZONS.

_SORDELLO_ 24 III.

MATURING METHODS.