Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 264, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1917 — Soldiers to Read Browning. [ARTICLE]

Soldiers to Read Browning.

The Boston Browning society is preparing a booklet of selections from the poet’s writings for use in American military camps and in the trenches. Men of action, according to' the officers of the society, like poetry, an& this contention is backed by a quotation from the London Chronicle in relation to the trip of Sir Ernest Shackleton to the Antarctic: “The library of the Endurance went down with her. Only a few personal volumes survived. Among them were two Brownings. Sir Ernest had one and JMr. McNich, the carpenter, had the other.” F. Herbert Stead thus comments: “The commander and the carpenter both found Browning the indispensable companion a£ their ihost perilous voyage.”