Show I David Loth Writes Biographical Work of The Brownings' Brownings Author Achieves Limited Success in ill Book Reads Superficially i 4 By TED LONG LONGIn I In his The Brownings s a Victorian Vic Vic- torian Idyl DavId Loth achieves a a. j rather limited success lne volume is a delightful one to read blessed as it is with a charming style but 1 it Is at best an Incomplete Idyl idl and at times reads rather super super- tidally although it Js is evident that Loth has given his subject a great deal of stud study The author is to be hIghly praised for his presentation of Robert Browning as a man lIe He showS show Browning as a far different sort of character would be Imagined from a perusal of his vers Verse Verse-as s a a. t man who was noted In his time as the greatest diner out in London London Lon Lon- don whose social conversation was widely known and enjoyed and whose jovIality was extremely engaging engaging en- en NEGLECTS POETRY In writing of Browning the poet 1 however Loth fails for he does not connect the writer with his work For all indication Loth gives poetry po- po zo etry may have been only an In mci- mci l- l dent of Brownings Browning's life liCe instead or of Its whole Nor or does Loth give anything any aTlY- thing but the most superficial dis- dis Brownings Browning's poetry lIe seems t to believe that aU all interest In his subjects subject's poems died with the Browning clubs and ends his Idl with the Some da day some bright young man is going to disCover discover dis- dis Cover Browning a statement which seems absurd and which detracts from rom the fineness of most of oC the volume Although the tue idyl purports to deal with both or of the Brownings Elizabeth Eliza Eliza- beth gets s less attention than her fair share LoUt Loth treats her life earl works as they were Influenced by her husband and does not give them the attention which their Individuality demands He Is not to be blamed too severely for this however how how- i ever for it I 15 a difficult deal adequately with two persons such as' as the Brownings In one iol 01 ume FAULTS NOT SERIOUS SERIOUS' All of the faults ot of The BrownIngs Brownings Brown Brown- Ings while Important are no not serious and the Idyl Idl is undoubtedly a fine piece or of work Loth has made attempt to interpret Robert nobert Drowning Browning and has strayed Into tIm tho quagmires ot of futile lIe He has Instead painted a a. picture of a. a man which 1 If not a. a finished por- por is an admirable sketch The reader who picks up TIle The Brownings Brown Brown- ings cannot fail faU to be charmed antI and delighted by its smoothness and style The s Brownings is the first bio blo 4 graphIcal work attempted by Loth who Is a a. NeW York newspaper man He is noW working on a biography of Lorenzo the tanos tanoa New York |