. The old yellow book, source of Browning's The ring and the . , and sent by the finder to the Poet.*^ The Death Record of Pompilia in the register of San Lorenzo in Lucina.^* (7) The Old Yellow Book. Do you see this square old yellow Book, I tossr the air, and catch again, and twirl aboutBy the crumpled vellum covers,—pure crude factSecreted from mans life when hearts beat hard, And brains, high-blooded, ticked two centuries since? * * * Small-quarto size, part print part manuscript:A book in shape but, really, pure crude fact * * * Give it me back! The things restorativer the touch an

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. The old yellow book, source of Browning's The ring and the . , and sent by the finder to the Poet.*^ The Death Record of Pompilia in the register of San Lorenzo in Lucina.^* (7) The Old Yellow Book. Do you see this square old yellow Book, I tossr the air, and catch again, and twirl aboutBy the crumpled vellum covers,—pure crude factSecreted from mans life when hearts beat hard, And brains, high-blooded, ticked two centuries since? * * * Small-quarto size, part print part manuscript:A book in shape but, really, pure crude fact * * * Give it me back! The things restorativer the touch and sight. * * * Here is it all i the book at last, as first There it was all i the heads and hearts of Rome * * * truth thus grasped and gained,—The book was shut and done with and laid by The unique collection of pamphlets, which Browningcalled the old yellow book, now rests in Balliol CollegeLibrary, Oxford. This first reproduction of it has beenmade by the Columbia Planograph Company of Wash-ington from photographic plates taken by the ClarendonPress, m^: ^&aviamL(^ *^YeMr\-A-^ ^^, > rotr^y y^^A^^ ;iXx^ r^e^£^.

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