Show cobert death iDalie ruri special F P Stirl lc cel 0 I 1 LONDON landon dac dan 13 robert crowning browning though dea beadi dyet yet yes berday was the anni of the dakof great english J gl ish p poets bet d death his lite frieada fri eoda 1 n a berous and enthus enthusiastic bail bad intended to have some annual celebration that will tend to keep green the memory of a lovable man whose verge verses are in almost every home in the united kingdom this year the taek task of recalling the poet devolved largely upon colonel dourad Edi eona gent agent here the colonel invited a largo large and party to the edison house u where here be anly p produced prod ced aced ft a phonographic cylinder containing a few sentences spoken into it by Brown browning log on april 71 7 1859 1889 at the bouso house of it rudolph a dolph lehmann the artist the cylinder waa was placed in the machine machino ind nd when it ww vas slatted there came a marv elous reproduction of Brow brownings ninas voice it cougras congratulated tennyson on bis his latest work asked bow how long it would be before electricity elecy elsey ariell y and mans ingenuity losena ity would outstrip in rei reality edity the broad fiction of julea jules ver vernes neo and made reference leter euce to the glories alre 0 re spring a topic e especially hect pleasing plea sina at all times lo 10 brownin browning it waa was the airet time in that a voica voice had bad been he beard 1 rd from the grave it was perfectly natural with a IL light bl hot ing at intervals in th abe I 1 sentence there was reared that bronios bro bad not recited the whole of one of at his bij own poems in the machine eo so that his reading might have been enjoyed by the world for all time to come |