BROWNING'S METHODS.

Press, Volume XLVII, Issue 7525, 15 April 1890, Page 6

BROWNING'S METHODS.

■•..itfid,!,":-: •"'.--. • Spectator. - fl_©wnlng is much more skilful in bring- ; tnijfW-t the solid goodness of common* {dace qualities by abruptness, oddity, , -_**rotesque contrasts, than by lighting them up from within by a__eer visionary •" insight. It is, as usual, by some eccentric 1 itody of these qualities, that he makes us see now central they are to the -whole ■- r fttethod and procedure of human conduct. '■ : -For example, he wants to proclaim that a healthy appetite for humble fare is a legitimate occasion for hearty thankful- / nw^,—A»ood commonplace truth if ever there were one,—and he illustrates it by relating how Pope Sixtus V., wander- . Ing about Borne to find out nnre- " dressed -wrongs, came on some rr people's bean feast, and begged ~_... bliite, concluding his meal by : thanking God that,though he only seemed to the world to launch divine thunders, ~ be had an. appetite a_»d good digestion, could relish beans as thoroughly as ■*'"iW , *? £ J tf _ fl _ ***& tot whichfas he . implied, be bad much more reason to be thankful than for the questionable powers £? 1 __! l & a M J Pd s fc " ™* *« a ***TBoaS. tßuartvatfon of what we mean by sarinc- ■ that Mr Browning loved to insist cm very •: faomely truths by delineating them from some eccentric point of view which tetraght cut the outline and colours .in, a _Bd strikiag light,