Notably the Sonnets from the Portuguese.

'A Child's Death at Florence,' which appeared in the Athenaeum of December 22, 1849.

Mrs. Jameson's Legends of the Monastic Orders, which had just been published.

Presumably not Mrs. Browning's maid, but 'Christopher North.'

The Athenaeum review of Christmas Eve and Easter Day, while recognising the beauty of many passages in the two poems, criticised strongly the discussion of theological subjects in 'doggrel verse;' and its analysis of the theology would hardly be satisfactory to the author.

Referring to the lines entitled A Child's Grave at Florence, which had apparently been misunderstood as implying the death of Mrs. Browning's own child.

These are the papers subsequently published under the title Recollections of a Literary Life. Among them was an article on the Brownings, giving biographical detail with respect to Mrs. Browning's early life, especially as to the loss of her brother, which caused extreme pain to her sensitive nature, as a later letter testifies.

Drowned with her husband on their way to America.

The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point.

The Papal Bull appointing Roman Catholic bishops throughout England was issued on September 24, 1850, and England was now in the throes of the anti-papal excitement produced by it.

"Where Louis Napoleon was engaged in his series of encroachments on the power of the Assembly and intrigues for the imperial throne."