E600505C. Napoleon III In Italy, and Other Poems.

Newark Daily Advertiser, 5 May 1860, p. 2.

As reprinted in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 27, 399.

Mrs. Browning has fulminated a terrible diatribe relative to the political events of Southern Europe, praising Napoleon III., and finishing her little work with a blast, which she calls “A Curse for a Nation,” against our slavery institutions. In reading it we are compelled to believe the line as having more truth than poetry, which says “Hell has no fury like a woman scorned.” The book is called in Europe “Poems before Congress,” but is here printed by Francis & Co., as “Napoleon III. in Italy.” While Mrs. B has put prosy politics into verse, Grace Greenwood has made the opposite transmogrification of putting poetry into prose, by her Stories from Famous Ballads for Children, which makes a very pretty child’s book, and her dedication we recommend to the general contemplation of mothers as well as the little ones.

Reviewed:

Napoleon III in Italy, and Other Poems (EBB), New York: C.S. Francis & Co., 1860.

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