The Browning Cyclopaedia Part 1

The Browning Cyclopaedia.

by Edward Berdoe.

"The Browning Cyclopaedia."

_SOME OPINIONS OF THE PRESS ON THE FIRST EDITION._

"Conscientious and painstaking,"--_The Times._

"Obviously a most painstaking work, and in many ways it is very well done."--_Pall Mall Gazette._

"In many ways a serviceable book, and deserves to be widely bought."--_The Speaker._

"A book of far-reaching research and careful industry ... will make this poet clearer, nearer, and dearer to every reader who systematically uses his book."--_Scotsman._

"Dr. Berdoe is a safe and thoughtful guide; his work has evidently been a labour of love, and bears many marks of patient research."--_Echo._

"Students of Browning will find it an invaluable aid."--_Graphic._

"A work suggestive of immense industry."--_Morning Post._

"Erudite and comprehensive."--_Glasgow Herald._

"As a companion to Browning's works the Cyclopaedia will be most valuable; it is a laborious, if necessary, piece of work, conscientiously performed, for which present and future readers and students of Browning ought to be really grateful."--_Nottingham Daily Guardian._

"A monumental labour, and fitting company for the great compositions he elucidates."--_Rock._

"It is very well that so patient and ubiquitous a reader as Dr. Berdoe should have written this useful cyclopaedia, and cleared the meaning of many a dark and doubtful pa.s.sage of the poet."--_Black and White._

"It is not too much to say that Dr. Berdoe has earned the grat.i.tude of every reader of Browning, and has materially aided the study of English literature in one of its ripest developments."--_British Weekly._

"Dr. Berdoe's Cyclopaedia should make all other handbooks unnecessary."--_Star._

"We are happy to commend the volume to Browning students as the most ambitious and useful in its cla.s.s yet executed."--_Notes and Queries._

"A most learned and creditable piece of work. Not a difficulty is s.h.i.+rked."--_Vanity Fair._

"A monument of industry and devotion. It has really faced difficulties, it is conveniently arranged, and is well printed and bound."--_Bookman._

"A wonderful help."--_Gentlewoman._

"Can be strongly recommended as one for a favourite corner in one's library."--_Whitehall Review._

"Exceedingly well done; its interest and usefulness, we think, may pa.s.s without question."--_Publishers' Circular._

"In a singularly industrious and exhaustive manner he has set himself to make clear the obscure and to accentuate the beautiful in Robert Browning's poem ... must have involved infinite labour and research. It cannot be doubted that the book will be widely sought for and warmly appreciated."--_Daily Telegraph._

"Dr. Berdoe tackles every allusion, every proper name, every phase of thought, besides giving a most elaborate a.n.a.lysis of each poem. He has produced what we might almost call a monumental work."--_Literary Opinion._

"This cyclopaedia may certainly claim to be by a long way the most efficient aid to the study of Browning that has been published, or is likely to be published.... Lovers of Browning will prize it highly, and all who wish to understand him will consult it with advantage."--_Baptist Magazine._

"The work has evidently been one of love, and we doubt whether any one could have been found better qualified to undertake it."--_Cambridge Review._

"All readers of Browning will feel indebted to Dr. Berdoe for his interesting accounts of the historical facts on which many of the dramas are based, and also for his learned dissertations on 'The Ring and the Book' and 'Sordello.'"--_British Medical Journal._

"The work is so well done that no one is likely to think of doing it over again."--_The Critic_ (New York).

"This work reflects the greatest credit on Dr. Berdoe and on the Browning Society, of which he is so distinguished a member,--it is simply invaluable."--_The Hawk._

"The Cyclopaedia has at any rate brought his (Browning's) best work well within the compa.s.s of all serious readers of intelligence--Browning made easy."--_The Month._

THE BROWNING CYCLOPaeDIA.

By the Same Author.

=BROWNING'S MESSAGE TO HIS TIME. His Religion, Philosophy, and Science.= With Portrait and Facsimile Letters. Second edition, price 2_s._ 6_d._

_OPINIONS OF THE PRESS._

"Full of admiration and sympathy."--_Sat.u.r.day Review._

"Much that is helpful and suggestive."--_Scotsman._

"Should have a wide circulation, it is interesting and stimulative."--_Literary World._

"It is the work of one who, having gained good himself, has made it his endeavour to bring the same good within the reach of others, and, as such, it deserves success."--_Cambridge Review._

"We have no hesitation in strongly recommending this little volume to any who desire to understand the moral and mental att.i.tude of Robert Browning.... We are much obliged to Dr. Berdoe for his volume."--_Oxford University Herald._

"Cannot fail to be of a.s.sistance to new readers."--_Morning Post._

"The work of a faithful and enthusiastic student is here."--_Nation._

THE BROWNING CYCLOPaeDIA