Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1918 — Browning Best Talker. [ARTICLE]

Browning Best Talker.

“Among the Victorian literary men,” says a writer in the Manchester (England) Guardian, “the best talker, by common consent, was Browning. All the chroniclers agree that among Victorian notables there was no more vigorous and inexhaustible gossip than Browning. Together with James Russell Lowell, the talker par excellence among Americans resident In England, he seemed determined to prove how thoroughgoing a maiT of the world it was possible for a poet to be.”