(To Mrs Jameson), ii.

221.] [Footnote 71: F.G.Kenyon.

_Letters of E.B.B._, ii.

263.] [Footnote 72: "Browning was intimately acquainted," writes Miss Anna Swanwick, "with Salvini." What especially lived in Browning's memory as transcending everything else he had witnessed on the stage was Salvini's impersonation of the blind Oedipus, and in particular one incident: a hand is laid on the blind man's shoulder, which he supposes the hand of one of his sons; he discovers it to be the hand of Antigone; the sudden transition from a look of fiery hate to one of ineffable tenderness was unsurpassable in its mastery of dramatic expression.

(Condensed from "Anna Swanwick, a Memoir and Recollections," 1903, pp.