BY

ROBERT BROWNING.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

A NEW EDITION.

BOSTON:

TICKNOR AND FIELDS.

M DCCC LXIII.

RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE:

STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY н. Ó. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY.

AUTHOR'S EDITION.

To Messrs. TICKNOR AND FIELDS:

I take advantage of the opportunity of the publication in the United States of my "Men and Women," for printing which you have liberally remunerated me, to express my earnest desire that the power of publishing in America this and every subsequent work of mine may rest exclusively with your house.

I am, my dear Sirs,

PARIS, NOV 29, 1855.

with high esteem,

Yours faithfully,

ROBERT Browning.

MANY of these pieces were out of print, the rest had been withdrawn from circulation, when the corrected edition, now submitted to the reader, was prepared. The various Poems and Dramas have received the

author's most careful revision.

DECEMBER, 1848.