...as those of German. He inquired how I and my friends spent our evenings in Rome, and I said, In all kinds of study and reading, but just now P-- was at work on Browning's Ring and the Book. Mr. Longfellow laughed. I do not wonder you call it work, he said. It seems to me a story told in so many different ways may be something of a curiosity — not much of a poem. I remarked that Rev...