The Woman's Tribune

An American periodical has widely advertised the fact that Robert Browning refused a poem to the columns of that paper, though it offered a fabulous sum. This leads The Independent to print a letter received from the poet some two years ago which explains his hesitancy, and also throws a pathetic light upon the experience of those who "for the sake of the many dare stand with the few." In this letter he says: "I would willingly accept them were I not hardened in my conviction—of such old standing!—that my poems, smaller or greater, make very little impression at their first appearance, and that the time which is required for people to even examine them could not be allowed by a magazine, which must, in the main, be conducted with a view to immediate success." Unity.