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^T^HE undersigned have been for more than 
 J- three years bringing together the won- 
 derful collection of First Editions of Tenny- 
 son! s Works described in the pages following. 
 As the foundation of the set was a long series 
 of volumes purchased from a private collector 
 who had been interested in Tennyson's works 
 for many years it is very doubtful whether 
 such a collection could be brought together 
 again in such a period of time. 
 
 The set is offered for sale. It consists of yo 
 volumes in red levant morocco cases, elaborately 
 tooled, together with i^ volumes of minor in- 
 terest and 2^ volumes of Tennysoniana, besides 
 letters, etc., inserted in various volumes. 
 Particulars as to price on application. 
 
 Dodd, Mead & Company, 
 Fifth Ave. & 35th Street, 
 New York. 
 
WORKS OF 
 ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
Of this volume, 306 copies 
 have been printed of which 
 56 are on Large Pa- 
 per, with two ex- 
 tra illus- 
 trations. 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 
 
 OF THE FIRST EDITIONS IN 
 BOOK FORM OF THE WORKS OF 
 
 THE DESCRIPTION OF 
 
 A SET BROUGHT TOGETHER BY 
 
 DODD, MEAD & COMPANY 
 
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 WITH NOTES REFERRING TO ITEMS 
 
 NOT INCLUDED, IN THE SET 
 
 NEW YORK 
 DODD, MEAD & COMPANY 
 
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 Copyright, igoi 
 By Dodd, Mead & Company, 
 
INTRODUCTION 
 
 'X'HE ways of book-collectors, why they should 
 spend time and money in bringing together 
 the first editions of the books of one author while 
 those of another of equal literary merit are allowed 
 to stand unsold on the bookseller's shelves, are, like 
 other vagaries of mankind, oftentimes past under- 
 standing. Coleridge, Wordsworth and Byron, surely 
 a trio of great English poets, attract but few collect- 
 ors, but the first editions of Shelley, Keats and Lamb 
 are eagerly sought after and bring constantly increas- 
 ing prices. No author, all of whose books are easily 
 secured, can be a " collector's author." There must 
 be difficulties to be overcome to furnish the right 
 zest to the collector. 
 
 Tennyson is a " collector's author," and very justly 
 too, as he was the last, as well as greatest, of the 
 poets of his time, and his first editions are big enough 
 game for any hunter. Any collector who can bring to- 
 gether a complete or nearly complete set of his writ- 
 ings in first editions must have skill, courage and per- 
 sistence in the highest degree, as well as the even 
 
INTRODUCTION 
 
 more necessary attribute of money. The opportunity 
 is here offered of securing at once a set of first edi- 
 tions of Tennyson which cannot fail to be the admi- 
 ration and envy of even the most skillful, courageous 
 and persistent of book-hunters. 
 
 First editions of many of Tennyson's later books 
 are easily secured. After he had attained fame his 
 publishers ran immense editions, sometimes forty or 
 fifty thousand copies or even more of some volumes, 
 and they can, therefore, never be rare. Such books 
 as Tiresias, The Holy Grail, Ballads, and some oth- 
 ers, are still to be had in the market at or below the 
 original publication price. Even more famous vol- 
 umes, such as The Princess, In Menwriam and Idylls 
 of the King, while moderately difficult to secure in 
 fresh, unread condition, are still easily " picked up." 
 The earlier volumes of Poems of 1827, 1830, 1833, 
 and even of 1842, are now hard to come by, espe- 
 cially in the original bindings and uncut, and are 
 bringing steadily increasing prices. 
 
 The real effort of the collector, however, must be 
 put forth to secure the privately printed volumes 
 which Tennyson, more than almost any other author, 
 liked to prepare. The Memoir says " he always liked 
 to see his poems in print some months and some- 
 times years before publication, for, as he said, 'po- 
 etry looks better, more convincing, in print.' " 
 
 Considering the rarity of these private issues, an 
 especially large number of them are included in the 
 set described in the succeeding pages. Their issue 
 being private, often for a limited circle of friends 
 only, it is remarkable that even the few which have 
 
INTRODUCTION 
 
 come upon the market should have been offered for 
 sale. The first private issue of his early poem The 
 Lover's Tale, and the preliminary trial issues of the 
 Idylls of the King, are almost beyond hope of 
 securing, although one of the latter has been pur- 
 chased within a few years by a New York collector 
 from the catalogue of an English bookseller, who did 
 not at all appreciate its rarity or value. And many 
 patient, and at the same time eager collectors, have 
 found out that among rare books few items are really 
 absolutely hopeless. 
 
 Tennyson more than any of his contemporaries 
 was continually altering and revising or adding new 
 lines to his poems after they were published. He 
 also frequently would restore a poem after it had 
 been once suppressed, or lines after they had been 
 struck out. For these reasons some books, perhaps 
 most noticeably The Princess, will be found repre- 
 sented in this set by a series of editions. To sup- 
 ply every volume which contains such alteration 
 would extend the set beyond the space likely to be 
 allotted to it by any other than the most exacting 
 student of Tennyson's works. The most important 
 of them have, however, been included. In making 
 these additions the point has not been forgotten that 
 the average collector's shelf room is limited. For 
 this reason most of the books to which Tennyson 
 contributed a few lines or a single poem have been 
 excluded. The fact that Tennyson contributed four 
 lines to Jebb's Primer of Greek Literature makes 
 that book a first edition of Tennyson. It is not, 
 however, a book that is likely to interest a collector. 
 
INTRODUCTION 
 
 It has been mentioned in its proper place in this 
 bibliography, but the volume has not been included 
 in the set. Most of the Annuals to which during his 
 earlier years Tennyson, in common with his contem- 
 poraries, was a frequent contributor, have been ex- 
 cluded for the same reason. An exception has been 
 made only in the case of The Tribute, in which the 
 "Stanzas" there printed for the first time are of es- 
 pecial interest, being an early version of a part of one 
 of the author's best known poems, " Maud." One 
 or two other items of which Helen's Tower is the most 
 notable, though containing only a single contributed 
 poem, have been included on account of their rarity 
 and interest. Several pirated volumes by Richard 
 Heme Shepherd and J. Dykes Campbell, though not 
 actual first editions, have also been included. 
 
 Collectors refuse to acknowledge appearance in a 
 periodical as a first edition. While we have attempted 
 in our comment under each volume to name those 
 poems which did appear in print in periodical form 
 before they were collected with others by the author, 
 our notes in this respect may not be quite complete. 
 As the periodical issues quite often differ from the 
 later issue in book form, a systematic collection of 
 the poems as they first appeared could not fail to 
 be of interest to the special student of the author's 
 text. 
 
 The items described in large type, generally with 
 collations, are those included in the set. Items men- 
 tioned in the notes beginning in each case with the 
 word "Note" are not part of the set described. 
 Some of them, such as the Annuals and other books 
 
INTRODUCTION 
 
 to which Tennyson was merely a contributor, have 
 been purposely excluded. Others, and these are not 
 numerous, will be added as they can be secured. 
 
 The collations might have been made more ex- 
 tended. We think, however, that sufficient data has 
 been given to properly verify the make-up of the 
 book. Blank pages and blank leaves have been gen- 
 erally ignored in the collations. The new biblio- 
 graphy, we know, demands a description of each 
 book leaf by leaf, and every blank leaf which origi- 
 nally formed a part of any signature of the book 
 when it was printing ought to be described as an 
 essential part of the book. In modern books, how- 
 ever, this is not as necessary as in old books, and we 
 hope that the notes about the books themselves and 
 their contents will be of more interest than a leaf- 
 by-leaf description of the volumes. 
 
 While an occasional important variation in the 
 texts of different editions has been noted, no effort 
 has been made to point out all of these. That, if 
 carried out, would result in a variorum edition of the 
 author's writings, a magnum opus which some one 
 may some day prepare and which will necessarily fill 
 many volumes. 
 
 The best bibliography of Tennyson's works hith- 
 erto accessible has been that which was prepared by 
 the late Richard Heme Shepherd, a most assiduous 
 student of Tennyson's writings (too assiduous many 
 times for Tennyson's own well feeling), but not pub- 
 lished until after his death. The authoritative bibli- 
 ography will be that by Mr. Thomas J. Wise, master 
 collector along his chosen lines and master bibliog- 
 
INTRODUCTION 
 
 rapher of the modern English poets. This bibhog- 
 raphy will appear in one of the forthcoming volumes 
 of the Literary Anecdotes of the Nineteenth Century. 
 We have been favored and much aided in preparing 
 the description of this set by having the privilege of 
 consulting proof sheets of a part of this bibliography, 
 We have not, however, had access to the complete 
 material, and when Mr. Wise's bibliography is printed 
 we expect to find some of our queries explained, 
 omissions supplied and mistakes corrected. We have 
 also been aided materially by Dr. Rolfe's very satis- 
 factory notes found in the Cambridge Edition of 
 Tennyson's Works and needless to say by the 
 Memoir of Lord Tennyson by his son, which includes 
 extracts from his letters and journals. 
 
 L. S. L. 
 
WORKS 
 
 OF 
 
 ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
WORKS OF 
 ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
 P 
 
 OEMS BY TWO BROTHERS. 
 LONDON, 1827. i6mo, original 
 boards, uncut. 
 
 Collation: Title, Advertisement, prefatory poem, Contents 
 and Errata, pp. i-xii ; text, pp. 1-228. 
 
 This volume contains Tennyson's first published 
 work. Three brothers actually contributed to it, 
 Alfred, Charles and Frederick ; the latter, howeirer, 
 was responsible for only three or four poems. 
 Tennyson told his friend Knowles that " the three 
 brothers bound themselves to each other never to re- 
 veal who wrote this or that." After Lord Tenny- 
 son's death (his brother Charles having died earlier) 
 his son Hallam, aided by the memory of his uncle 
 Frederick, then still living, endeavored to fix defi- 
 nitely the authorship of the several pieces. 
 
 Of the one hundred and three pieces in the volume 
 he ascribed forty-two to Alfred, forty-eight to 
 Charles and three to Frederick, with reasonable cer- 
 tainty. Four were doubtfully ascribed to Alfred and 
 
WORKS OF 
 
 POEMS BY TWO BROTHERS, ii2n—ConHnued 
 
 one doubtfully to Charles, while another was begun 
 by Alfred and finished by Charles. Concerning the 
 remaining four he was not willing to express any 
 opinion. 
 
 POEMS, 
 
 BY TWO BROTHERS. 
 
 " u«c n<w HoviHus BUI Mai%„"—MaTtfat. 
 
 LONDON) 
 
 HINTED FOR W. SIMfKIH AND B. HlHSOAtt, 
 
 •TATI01flU*-HALL-C0PllTt 
 
 AHD J. AND I. MCKSOH, LDDTB. 
 
 UDCCCXXVII, 
 
 The boys — for Alfred at that time was only about 
 seventeen and Charles a year older — seem to have 
 copied out the best of their poems into a sheep-bound 
 blankbook, which they carried to their local book- 
 sellers, Messrs. J. and J. Jackson of Louth, who 
 printed the book, paying the authors twenty pounds 
 
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
 POEMS BY TWO BROTHERS, ^^&^^— Continued 
 
 for the copyright. Of this sum a considerable part (the 
 Memoir says one half, but Tennyson himself told J ames 
 Knowles one fourth) had to be taken out in books. 
 
 The original manuscript of Poems by Two Brothers 
 was discovered a few years ago in the possession of 
 the successors of the Jacksons. It was put up for 
 sale at Sotheby's and brought ;^48o, being purchased 
 by Messrs. Macmillan & Bowes, booksellers, of Cam- 
 bridge. They expected to dispose of it to the 
 College authorities, but for some reason, probably lack 
 of funds, this was impossible, and the manuscript was 
 purchased by Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Company, who 
 offered it for sale in their catalogue of April, 1893, 
 for $3,500. When the friends of the College found 
 that the manuscript had actually been sold abroad, 
 they bestirred themselves and a fund was raised by 
 subscription for its repurchase. It is now in the 
 library of Trinity College, Cambridge. 
 
 None of the poems in the volume were ever re- 
 printed, with Tennyson's permission. Some copies 
 of Poems by Two Brothers were printed on large paper. 
 Except Tennyson's last book, The Death of Oenone, 
 published after his death, no first edition of any other 
 book of his was ever published in two sizes. 
 
 PROLUSIONES ACADEMICS PRI- 
 MUS ANNUIS DIGNAT^. Cam- 
 bridge, 1829. 8vo, brown levant morocco, 
 gilt top, uncut, by Tout. 
 
 Collation: Title, half-title, text, etc., pp. 1-41, with 
 blank leaf at end, completing the signature. 
 
 5 
 
WORKS OF 
 
 PROLUSIONES ACADEMICiE, iS2g— Continued 
 
 " Timbuctoo," the poem which obtained the Chan- 
 cellor's Medal at the Cambridge Commencement, 
 1829, is the first piece in the volume, filling pages 5. 
 
 PROLUSIONES 
 ACADEMICM 
 
 PRiCHIIS ANNUIS DIGNATiB 
 
 ■T 
 
 IN CUBIA CANTABRIGIENSI 
 
 BECITATf 
 
 COMITHS UAXIMIS 
 
 A.B. II.I>CCCJCXIS. 
 
 CANTABBIGIJE: 
 
 *VriS JtCADBHICIt BJCCV61T 
 JOANNES SMITH. 
 
 to 13. An early mezzotint portrait of Tennyson, en- 
 graved by Sartain, is inserted in this copy. Laid in 
 also is a very interesting autograph letter to Met- 
 calfe, the Cambridge printer, relating to the poem. 
 This letter we quote in full, although it is printed, 
 
 6 
 
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
 PROLUSIONES ACADEMICiE, i82g—Coniinued 
 
 with some of the abbreviations expanded, in the Mem- 
 oir, Vol. I, p. 45. The date is there given as 1831. 
 
 " SOMERSBY. 
 
 " Sir, 
 
 "As you intend to reprint the Cambridge P. P™s it would 
 seem odd to leave mine out tho' for my own part I had much 
 rather you had not thought of it. Prize poems (without any 
 exception even in favour of Mr. Milman's Belvidere) are not 
 properly speaking ' Poems ' at all & ought to be forgotten as 
 soon as recited. I could have wished that poor Timbuctoo 
 might have been suffered to slide quietly off with all its errors 
 into forgetfulness ; however as I do not expect to turn you 
 from your purpose of republishing the Pe Ps, I suppose mine 
 must be printed along with them ; only for ' cones of Pyramids,' 
 which is nonsense (p. 10), I will thank you to substitute ' peaks 
 of Pyramids.' 
 
 " I am, Sir 
 
 "yours truly 
 
 " Alfred Tennvson, 
 
 " Sunday morne." 
 
 The correction noted was made in all late reprints 
 of the poem, although Tennyson himself never in- 
 cluded it in any of the collected editions of his 
 works. After his death it was included in the second 
 edition of Poems by Two Brothers. 
 
 The author apparently had a few copies of "Tim- 
 buctoo" alone pulled from the types of the Prolusiones. 
 Of this separate edition, which certainly follows instead 
 of preceding the official edition, only a single copy is 
 known to exist. This copy ( which is now owned in 
 the United States) is for the first time accurately 
 described by Mr. Wise in his forthcoming Biblio- 
 graphy. He says there in part : 
 
WORKS OF 
 
 PROLUSIONES ACADEMICS, \%if)— Continued 
 
 "This is a separate pull of the poem alone, without any of 
 the additional matter which accompanied it in the Prolusiones. 
 The pamphlet was formed by taking the first sheet of the Pro- 
 lusiones — i6pages; deleting the general title-page, and setting 
 the single word Timbuctoo in its place, forming a half-title 
 (with blank reverse); adding to the separate title to Timbuctoo 
 the Arms of the University, and the printer's imprint: 'Printed 
 by J. Smith, Printer to the University. 1829' — thus forming 
 a complete title-page. No alteration of the pagination was 
 necessary, the poem occupying pp. 5-13 as in the Prolusiones. 
 Pages 14-16, completing the sheet, are blank. The leaves 
 (which are entirely untrimmed) measure 9}4^S?i inches. The 
 reason why the poem was thus separately printed is not known ; 
 indeed, the fact of the existence of this separate issue has never 
 hitherto been recorded. No doubt the poet himself caused a 
 few copies to be so struck off for friendly distribution." 
 
 POEMS CHIEFLY LYRICAL. London, 
 
 1830. i6mo, original boards, uncut. 
 
 Collation : Title and Errata, pp. i-iii ; text, pp. i-iS4 ; 
 advertisements, i leaf. 
 
 This is Tennyson's first collected volume of verse. 
 Of the fifty-six pieces in the volume, the twenty- 
 three following have never been included in any au- 
 thorized edition of the author's works. 
 
 The " How " and the " Why." 
 
 The Burial of Love. 
 
 To " Sainted Juliet ! dearest name ! " 
 
 Song. "I' the glooming light." 
 
 Song. " The lintwhite and the throstlecock." 
 
 Song. " Every day hath its night." 
 
 Hero to Leander. 
 
 The Mystic. 
 
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
 POEMS CHIEFLY LYRICAL, xi^o— Continued 
 
 The Grasshopper. 
 Love, Pride, and Forgetfulness. 
 Chorus, in an unpublished Drama, written very 
 early. 
 
 POEMS. 
 
 CHIEFLY LYRICAL, 
 
 BY ALFRED TENNYSON. 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 EFFINGHAM WILSON, ROYAL EXCHAHOI; 
 
 CDUBIU.. 
 
 1830. 
 
 Lost Hope. 
 The Tears of Heaven. 
 Love and Sorrow. 
 To a Lady Sleeping. 
 
WORKS OF 
 
 POEMS CHIEFLY LYRICAL, i%zo— Continued 
 
 Sonnet. "Could I outwear my present state 
 
 of woe." 
 Sonnet, "Though Night hath climbed her peak 
 
 of highest noon." 
 Sonnet. " Shall the hag Evil die with child of 
 
 Good." 
 Sonnet. " The pallid thunderstricken sigh for 
 
 gain." 
 Love. 
 
 English Warsong. 
 Dualisms. 
 Ot psovTSi;. "All thoughts, all creeds, all 
 
 dreams are true," 
 
 Twenty-four of the others were reprinted in the 
 first two-volume edition of Poems in 1842, some with 
 alterations, generally slight. One, "The Deserted 
 House," was omitted in the first four editions, but 
 was restored in the fifth edition, 1848, without 
 change. Another, "The Sea-Fairies," was not 
 reprinted until the eighth edition of Poems, 1853, and 
 then with numerous changes. Four pieces, 
 
 Nothing will Die, 
 
 All Things will Die, 
 
 The Kraken, 
 
 We are Free, 
 were first restored in the 1872 edition of the Works. 
 The "National Song:" "There is no land like 
 England " was first reprinted in The Foresters in 
 1882, and then with the choruses rewritten. The 
 two remaining pieces, 
 
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
 POEMS CHIEFLY LYRICAL, i%zo- Continued 
 
 Elegiacs, 
 
 Supposed Confessions of a secondrate sensi- 
 tive Mind not in unity with itself, 
 were first reprinted in the 1 884 edition of Works. The 
 first there has the title " Leonine Elegiacs." 
 
 SONNETS AND FUGITIVE PIECES, 
 BY CHARLES TENNYSON. Cam- 
 bridge, 1830. i6mo, original cloth, uncut. 
 Collation : Half-title and title, pp. i-iv ; text, pp. 1-83. 
 
 By Alfred's brother, Charles, who contributed to 
 the Poems of Two Brothers, and included in the set 
 on that account. 
 
 This is a presentation copy, with inscription in the 
 author's autograph : 
 
 ' " William B. Philpot 
 
 from Charles Turner 
 July 28th, 1857." 
 
 An autograph letter to Philpot, signed " Charles 
 Turner," is inserted. Charles Tennyson assumed the 
 name of Turner in 1.837 on inheriting property from 
 an uncle, Samuel Turner. 
 
 The imprint in this copy is in three lines, " Cam- 
 bridge : / Published by B. Bridges, Market Hill/ 
 MDCCCXXX./ "Another copy, probably an earlier 
 issue, has two additional lines inserted after the 
 second, "and sold by John Richardson, 91, Royal/ 
 Exchange, London." The book evidently had a 
 slow sale, as there is a catalogue of books published 
 
WORKS OF 
 
 SONNETS AND FUGITIVE PIECES, li9,o— Continued 
 
 by Moxon, 8 pages, dated March, 1856, bound in. 
 
 This certainly cannot belong with the first edition. 
 
 Note : Tennyson contributed three pieces to The Gem, A Liter- 
 ary Annual, for 1831, as follows : 
 
 A Fragment. " Where is the Giant of the Sun, which stood ? " 
 Anacreonatics. " With roses musky breathed." 
 No More. 
 These three pieces were never reprinted with the poet's authoriza- 
 tion. They were included by Richard Heme Shepherd in 1870 in 
 the collection of poems printed to accompany his second pirated 
 edition of " The Lover's Tale." 
 
 Tennyson also contributed to two annuals issued in 1832. Friend- 
 ship's Offering contains a sonnet at page 367 : 
 
 " Me my own fate to lasting sorrow doometh." — 
 and the Yorkshire Literary Annual contains a sonnet : 
 
 " There are three things which fill my heart with sighs." 
 Neither of these two sonnets was ever reprinted with Tennyson's 
 permission, though both were included in Shepherd's little collection 
 of 1870. The first of the two is also found in the Memoir. 
 
 POEMS. London, 1833. i6mo, original 
 boards, uncut. 
 
 Collation : Advertisements, half-title, title and Con- 
 tents, pp. i-viii ; text pp. 1-163. 
 
 Though dated 1833 this volume was actually pub- 
 lished in December, 1832. 
 
 There are thirty pieces in the volume, all here 
 published for the first time. Six of these were 
 never afterwards reprinted in any authorized edition 
 of the poet's works. These are : 
 
 Sonnet. " O beauty, passing beauty ! sweetest 
 
 Sweet ! " 
 The Hesperides. 
 Song. " Who can say ?" 
 
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
 POEMS, li'i'i— Continued 
 
 Sonnet. Written on hearing of the outbreak 
 
 of the Polish Insurrection. 
 O Darling Room. 
 To Christopher North. 
 
 POEMS 
 
 ALFRED TENNYSON. 
 
 LONDON; 
 EDWARD MOXON, «, NEW BOND STREET. 
 
 HOCCCSJUIll. 
 
 A seventh poem, " Kate," was never reprinted in 
 any authorized edition during the poet's lifetime, 
 but is found in the editions issued in 1895 and since. 
 
 Of the others, sixteen were reprinted (all more or 
 less altered, we believe) in the first two-volume edi- 
 
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WORKS OF 
 
 POEMS, l%2ii— Continued 
 
 tion of Poems, 1842. Six were first reprinted in 
 
 1872 in the Library Edition of Works, the second, 
 
 especially, being materially altered. These six are : 
 
 Sonnet. " Mine be the strength of spirit fierce 
 
 and free." 
 
 To . "All good things have not kept aloof." 
 
 The first ten stanzas of the latter poem, some- 
 what altered, were reprinted in Selections, I865. 
 Buonaparte. 
 
 Sonnet. " But were I loved as I desire to be." 
 Sonnet. On the result of the late Russian in- 
 vasion of Poland. 
 
 Sonnet To . " As when with downcast eyes 
 
 we muse and brood." 
 One poem, " Rosalind," was reprinted for the first 
 time in 1884, when it was included in the Works of 
 that year. 
 
 Note: The Lover's Tale of 1833 is perhaps the rarest and mdst 
 valuable of the first editions of Tennyson. The following notes are 
 taken from the proof sheets of Mr. Wise's forthcoming bibliography: 
 
 " The poem was set up in type in the autumn of 1832, ac- 
 companied by the other thirty pieces which eventually formed 
 the contents of the well-known Poems of 1833. But, before the 
 time had arrived for the sheets to be printed off, the Author had 
 come to the conclusion that his longer poem stood in need of 
 more thorough revision than it could possibly receive within the 
 time then at his disposal. He therefore detached it from the 
 thirty sets of minor verses, and held it back for publication at 
 some future date. But before the types were distributed the 
 poet caused six copies to be struck off, and these six copies he 
 handed to Arthur Henry Hallam, who was charged with the duty 
 of delivering them to the five favored and fortunate individuals 
 
 14 
 
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
 POEMS, l&3^— Continued 
 
 by whom, in addition to himself, it was Tennyson's pleasure 
 they should be read. There is still extant a letter, addressed by 
 Arthur Hallam to a friend in the early days of 1833, in which 
 the writer states the fact that Tennyson had ordered these six 
 copies (the number is mentioned precisely) to be printed at his 
 own cost, and had placed them in his, Hallam's, hands for dis- 
 tribution. Unfortunately the names of the five lucky recipients 
 do not occur, and no hint is given by which they can be identi- 
 fied. 
 
 " Of the six copies printed three are known to be extant to- 
 day — perhaps as large a proportion of the original number as we 
 might fairly anticipate would be permitted by circumstances to 
 survive. The remaining three are probably gone beyond recall." 
 
 On November 20, 1832, Tennyson wrote to Moxon, his 
 publisher : 
 
 "After mature consideration, I have come to a resolution of 
 not publishing the last poem in my little volume, entitled, 
 ' Lover's Tale : ' It is too full of faults and tho' I think it 
 might conduce towards making me popular, yet, to my eye, it 
 spoils the completeness of the book, and it is better away ; of 
 course whatever expenses may have been incurred in printing 
 the above must devolve on me sulely. The vol. can end with 
 that piece titled to J. S." 
 
 Friendships Offering ior 1833 contains a sonnet by Tennyson : 
 "Check every outflash, every ruder sally." 
 
 This had appeared in The Englishman's Magazine for August, 
 1831. It was never reprinted in any authorized edition of the auth- 
 or's works, but is found in Shepherd's collection of 1870 and in the 
 Memoir. 
 
 THE TRIBUTE. London, 1837. 8vo, orig- 
 inal cloth, uncut. 
 
 Collation : Title, Preface, list of subscribers, Contents 
 and Errata, pp. i-xv ; text, pp. 1-422. 
 
 15 
 
WORKS OF 
 
 THE TRIBUTE, li^n— Continued 
 
 This Annual was edited by Lord Northampton for 
 the benefit of the family of the Reverend Edward 
 Smedley. Tennyson's friend, Richard Monckton 
 Milnes, afterwards Lord Houghton, promised the 
 editor that Tennyson would send some contribution. 
 Tennyson's reply to the letter in which he was told 
 of this promise is in part as follows : 
 
 " Three summers back, provoked by the incivility of editors 
 [of Annuals], I swore an oath that I would never again have to 
 do with their vapid books, and I brake it in the sweet face of 
 Heaven when I wrote for Lady What's-her-name Wortley. But 
 then her sister wrote to Brookfield and said she (Lady W.) was 
 beautiful, so I could not help it. But whether the Marquis be 
 beautiful or not, I don't much mind ; if he be, let him give God 
 thanks and make no boast. To write for people with prefixes 
 to their names is to milk he-goats ; there is neither honour nor 
 profit." 
 
 After putting the disagreeable task off as long as 
 possible Tennyson did finally send a contribution to 
 the volume, and, as requested, he made it longer 
 than the " average length of ' Annual compositions.' " 
 The poem, which is entitled only "Stanzas," fills 
 pages 244 to 250. 
 
 From these verses were afterwards built up the 
 long poem " Maud," first published in 1855. With 
 considerable alterations they form section IV of Part 
 II of the poem as found in the current editions. 
 
 Note : In the letter to Lord Houghton quoted above Tennyson 
 mentions having given a poem to Lady Wortley for The Keepsake. 
 This was the poem "St. Agnes," first printed in The Keepsake for 
 1837. It was included in the Poems of 1842 and later editions. In 
 the edition of 1855 the title was altered to " St. Agnes' Eve." 
 
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ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
 MORTE D'ARTHUR; DORA; AND 
 OTHER IDYLS. London, 1842. i6mo, 
 sewed, uncut. 
 
 Collation : Half-title, title and imprint pp. i-iv ; text, 
 pp. 1-66 ; note and imprint, pp. 67-68. 
 
 One of a very small private issue and excessively 
 rare, being unknown to Shepherd and even to Dr, 
 W. J. Rolfe, to whose notes in the Cambridge edition 
 we are much indebted. In the Memoir is this 
 note: 
 
 " In 1842 he had eight of the blank verse poems printed for 
 his private use, because he always liked to see his poems in print 
 some months and sometimes years before publication, ' for,' as 
 he swd, ' poetry looks better, more convincing, in print.' " 
 
 Eight poems are contained in the volume : 
 
 Morte D'Arthur. 
 
 Dora. 
 
 The Gardener's Daughter ; or, The Pictures, 
 
 Audley Court. 
 
 Walking to the Mail. 
 
 St. Simeon Stylites. 
 
 Ulysses. 
 
 Godiva. 
 The text of this " trial book " was printed from 
 the same types as the collected edition of the au- 
 thor's poems published later in the same year. 
 
 Neither the preliminary lines, "The Epic," pre- 
 fixed to " Morte D'Arthur," nor the supplementary 
 verses beginning 
 
 " Here ended Hall, and our last light, that long 
 Had wink'd and threaten'd darkness, flared and fell," 
 
 17 
 
WORKS OF 
 
 MORTE D' ARTHUR, li/^i—ConHnued 
 
 are found in this private issue. Nor are the four 
 
 lines printed in italics at the beginning of " Godiva," 
 
 " I waited for the train at Coventry," 
 found here. These additions were apparently made 
 
 MORTE D'ARTHUR; 
 DORA; 
 
 AND OIHEB ISnS. 
 
 ALFRED TENNTSON. 
 
 EDWABD MOXON, DOVKB STBEKT. 
 
 for the sole purpose of introducing the poems less 
 abruptly. 
 
 Except for these additions the poems are gener- 
 ally page for page with those of the published edi- 
 tion. As the arrangement is there quite different, 
 
 i3 
 
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
 MORTE D' ARTHUR, \i^2— Continued 
 
 the pagination is not the same. The only other 
 textual variation is the correction of a misprint, 
 "running" for " cunning," in the lines of " Godiva ": 
 
 " The little wide-mouth'd heads upon the spout 
 Had cunning eyes to see." 
 
 The explanatory note at the end : 
 "The author thinks it right to state that the idyl of ' Dora ' 
 was suggested, in part, by one of Miss Mitford's Pastorals." 
 
 was altered in the two-volume edition to read : 
 
 " The Idyl of ' Dora ' was partly suggested by one of Miss 
 Mitford's pastorals ; and the ballad of Lady Clare, by the novel 
 of ' Inheritance.' " 
 
 POEMS. London, 1842. 2 vols, i6mo, orig- 
 inal boards, uncut. 
 
 Collation : Vol. I. Half-title, title, and Contents, pp. 
 i-vii ; half-title and text, pp. 1-233 1 t^ote, p. 234 ; adver- 
 tisements, I leaf. Vol. II. Half-title, title and Con- 
 tents, pp. i-vii ; text, pp. 1-231 ; note, p. 232. 
 
 The first volume is made up principally of pieces 
 already published in the author's earlier volumes of 
 1830 and 1833. Twenty-three pieces were taken 
 from Poems Chiefly Lyrical, 1830, and sixteen pieces 
 from Poems, 1833. Each section has half-title, that 
 of the latter being " Poems. (Published 1832)." In 
 addition to these reprinted pieces, the larger part 
 of which were more or less altered, some very consid- 
 erably, this volume contains only seven new pieces. 
 
 The poems in the second volume, on the other 
 hand, are mostly new, two only having been pub- 
 lished before. "The Sleeping Beauty," which 
 
 19 
 
WORKS OF 
 
 POEMS, iS42—Coniinued 
 
 had appeared as an independent poem in Poems 
 Chiefly Lyrical, here forms a section only of the long 
 poem " The Day Dream," and " St. Agnes " is 
 
 POEMS. 
 
 ALFRED TENNTSON. 
 
 in TWO ▼0LnilB& 
 TOI. I. 
 
 MMSOMi 
 EOWABD MOXON, OOVGIt STBBET. 
 
 reprinted from The Keepsake of 1837. The eight 
 poems printed privately earlier in the year are in this 
 second volume as noted above. 
 
 POEMS. Fourth Edition. London, 1846. 
 
 2 vols, i6mo, original cloth. 
 
 Collation : Vol. I. Half-title, title, and Contents, pp. 
 i-vii ; half-title and text, pp. 1-232 ; note and imprint. 
 
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
 POEMS, 1846 — Continued 
 
 pp. 233-234 ; advertisements, i page. Vol. II. Half- 
 title, title and Contents, pp. i-vii ; text, pp. 1-235 ; im- 
 print, p. 236. 
 
 The second edition oi Poems, published in 1843, 
 and the third edition, published in 1845, were, gen- 
 erally speaking, simply reprints of the edition of 
 1842. 
 
 The note regarding Dora which appears as page 
 232 of Vol. II in the first and second editions is 
 omitted in the third and fourth. There were prob- 
 ably slight textual changes, but none, we believe, of 
 importance. 
 
 This fourth edition is of more interest, as it con- 
 tains on pages 88 to 91 of Vol. II anew poem, "The 
 Golden Year," here first printed. Moxon's Catalogue, 
 8 pages, dated July i, 1846, is bound in. 
 
 THE PRINCESS. London, 1847. i6mo, 
 original cloth, uncut. 
 
 Collation : Half-title, title and imprint, pp. i-iv ; text, 
 pp. 1-164. 
 
 The text of this first edition of " The Princess " 
 differs very materially from that of the current edi- 
 tions. 
 
 THE PRINCESS. Second Edition. Lon- 
 don, 1848. i6mo, original cloth, uncut. 
 
 Collation : Half-title, title and dedication, pp. i-v ; text, 
 pp. 1-164. 
 
 This second edition seems to have been printed 
 from the types of the first, but with a new title-page 
 
WORKS OF 
 
 THE PRINCESS, liifi—ConHmied 
 
 and a leaf of dedication. This gives the book one 
 preliminary leaf more than is found in the first edi- 
 tion. As a matter of fact, while the first signature 
 
 THE PRINCESS; 
 
 A KEEDLET. 
 
 ALFBGD TENNYSON. 
 
 LONDON r 
 BDWARD M020N, DOVEB STREET.'^ 
 
 of the first edition consists of two leaves only, that 
 of the second consists of four, the first leaf being 
 blank. The Dedication, to Henry Lushington, was 
 omitted in the recent editions. 
 
 Moxon's Catalogue, 8 pages, dated November i, 
 1847, is bound in. 
 
 ■■ ',4 
 
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
 POEMS. Sixth Edition. London, 1850. 
 
 i6mo, briginal cloth, uncut. 
 
 Collation : Half-title, title, and Contents, pp. i-viii ; 
 half-title and text, pp. 1-374; note and imprint, pp. 
 375-376. 
 
 The fifth edition of Poems, published in 1848, was 
 in one volume. Except that one poem, " The 
 Deserted House," first published in Poems, 1830, was 
 for the first time reprinted, the contents are the same 
 as those of the preceding two-volume editions. 
 
 This sixth edition includes, on pages 347 and 348, 
 ' one new poem. As here first printed it has only the 
 
 title "To ," but in 1853 a sub-title was added: 
 
 " After Reading a Life and Letters." The poem is 
 said to have been addressed to Charles Tennyson and 
 to refer to Lord Houghton's work. The Life and 
 Letters of John Keats. It had already appeared in 
 The Examiner of March 24, 1849. 
 
 This edition is also the last in which the poem 
 " The Skipping Rope " was included. It had been 
 first printed in the edition of 1842. 
 
 IN MEMORIAM. London, 1850. i6ino, 
 original cloth, uncut. 
 
 Collation : Half-title, title, prefatory poem, etc., pp. 
 i-viii ; text, pp. 1-210. 
 
 The writing of " In Memoriam " had been begun 
 as far back as 1833, immediately after the death of 
 young Arthur Henry Hallam, to whom the poem is 
 a most noble tribute. 
 
 According to the Memoir the poem was first printed 
 23 
 
WORKS OF 
 
 IN MEMORIAM, i%c,o— Continued 
 
 in May, 1850, "and given to a few friends." We 
 are not able to trace this private issue, if there were 
 such. The poem was published anonymously, but 
 the authorship was soon discovered. 
 
 IN 
 
 MEMORIAM. 
 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 EDWARD MOXON, DOVER STREET. . | 
 
 
 1850. 
 
 Inserted in this copy is a very interesting letter, 
 which, as it relates to Tennyson's copy of Hallam's 
 Remains, may well be associated with In Memoriam, 
 even though the date of the letter is much later than 
 that of the book. This letter is as follows : 
 
 24 
 
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
 IN MEMORIAM, i^io— Continued 
 
 .. Sjjj "Dec. 1 6th, 1874. 
 
 " I observe, that in the catalogue of your books, which I 
 believe you were good enough to send me, there is one (No. 492) 
 belongfing to me, ' The Remains of Arthur Hallam.' 
 
 "Many years ago it was lent by my sister to a music-mistress. 
 She was often requested to return it. Since that time having 
 lost sight of the lady, I had despaired of ever again getting back 
 my book, until I saw it advertized in your catalogue the other 
 day. On receiving this I wrote at once to a friend of mine at 
 Brighton asking her to call upon you, & explain the circum- 
 stances under which the book was lost, but she had already left 
 the piace. Of course I shall be very glad to pay any expenses 
 that you may have incurred with regard to this book, & shall 
 be much obliged to you, if you will forward it to me here. 
 " I am Sir, 
 
 " Your obedt Servnt, 
 
 " A. Tennyson." 
 
 THE PRINCESS. Third Edition. Lon- 
 don, 1850. i6mo, original cloth, uncut. 
 
 Collation: Half-title, title, and dedication, pp. i-v; 
 text, pp. 1-177 ; imprint, p. 178; advertisement, i page. 
 
 This third edition was in large part rewritten, some 
 portions being omitted. The six beautiful inter- 
 calary songs were here printed for the first time. 
 Without titles, they are known by their first lines : 
 
 " As thro' the land at eve we went." 
 
 " Sweet and low, sweet and low." 
 
 " The splendor falls on castle walls.'' 
 
 " When all among the thundering drums." 
 
 " Home they brought her warrior dead." 
 
 " Ask me no more : the moon may draw the sea." 
 
 25 
 
WORKS OF 
 
 THE PRINCESS, liso— Continued 
 
 Moxon's Catalogue, 8 pages, dated February, 1850, 
 is bound in. 
 
 Note : TAe Manchester Athenceum Album, published in Man- 
 chester in 1850, contains, on page 42, a poem, eight lines, by Tenny- 
 son: 
 
 " Here often, when a child, I lay reclined." 
 
 These verses were never reprinted by Tennyson in any authorized 
 edition of his works, but they are found in the Memoir, with the 
 title " Maplethorpe," where it is stated that they were written in 
 1837 or 1838. They were also included by Shepherd in his volume 
 printed in 1870. 
 
 IN MEMORIAM. Fourth Edition. Lon- 
 don, 1 85 1. 1 6mo, original cloth, uncut. 
 
 Collation : Half-title, title, prefatory poem, etc., pp. 
 i-viii; text, pp. i-2ii. 
 
 No textual changes were made in the second and 
 third editions of In Memoriam, but in this fourth 
 edition a new section, sixteen lines, beginning : 
 
 " O Sorrow, wilt thou live with me." 
 was inserted, following Number LVII of the first 
 edition. Another section, following Number 
 XXXVIII, was first added in the Miniature Edition 
 of Works, 1 871, and three other suppressed sections 
 are printed for the first time in the Memoir. 
 
 Moxon's Catalogue, 8 pages, dated April, 185 1, is 
 bound with this copy. 
 
 POEMS. Seventh Edition. London, 185 i. 
 
 i2mo, original cloth, uncut. 
 
 Collation : Half-title, title, dedicatory poem, and Con- 
 tents, pp. i-x (misnumbered xli) ; half-title and text, pp. 
 I-37S ; note and imprint, p. 376. 
 
 26 
 
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
 POEMS, i%i\— Continued 
 
 The dedication "To the Queen," which became 
 the first poem in all later editions of the author's 
 works, is here first printed. This earliest published 
 form includes an additional stanza, the seventh, 
 referring to the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 185 1, 
 struck out in later editions. This stanza is as follows : 
 
 "She brought a vast design to pass, 
 When Europe and the scatter'd ends 
 Of our fierce world were mixt as friends 
 
 And brethren in her halls of glass." 
 
 A still earlier form of the poem, differing very 
 materially from the published versions, was first 
 printed in Mr. Richard Jones* The Growth of the 
 Idylls, Philadelphia, 189S, from the original manu- 
 script in the Drexel Institute. Three stanzas of this 
 version, but differing slightly in text, are prefixed to 
 the Memoir. 
 
 This seventh edition includes four other pieces 
 here first collected : 
 
 Edwin Morris ; or, the Lake. 
 
 To . 
 
 " Come not when I am dead." 
 The Eagle. 
 
 Of these the third had already appeared in The 
 Keepsake of the same year. The others were here 
 first printed. 
 
 Tennyson had been appointed Poet Laureate in 
 November, 1850. This is the first edition of his 
 works published after that event. 
 
 Moxon's Catalogue, dated April, 1851, 8 pages, is 
 bound in. 
 
 27 
 
WORKS OF 
 
 THE PRINCESS. Fourth Edition. Lon- 
 don, 1 85 1. i6mo, original cloth, uncut. 
 
 Collation ; Half-title, title, and dedication, pp. i-v ; 
 text, pp. 1-182. 
 
 The passages referring to the " weird seizures " 
 of the prince were first printed in this fourth edi- 
 tion. 
 
 Note : Notwithstanding Tennyson's promise to himself not to 
 contribute to the Annuals, two poems of his did appear in The 
 Keepsake for 1851 : 
 
 Stanzas. " What time I wasted useful hours." 
 Stanzas. " Come not, when I am dead." 
 The first of these was never reprinted in any authorized edition 
 though they are found with others in Shepherd's little volume of 
 1870. The second was included in the seventh edition of Poems, 
 as noted above, 
 
 ODE ON THE DEATH OF THE DUKE 
 OF WELLINGTON. London, 1852. 8vo, 
 brown levant morocco, gilt top, uncut, with 
 the original drab paper cover bound in. 
 
 Collation: Half-title, title and text, pp. 1-16. 
 
 This " Ode " was published on the morning of the 
 Duke's funeral and was probably written in haste. 
 It was, at least, much altered when reprinted in 1853 
 and again somewhat altered when published in book 
 form with "Maud" in 1855. All these variations 
 have been noted in manuscript on inserted leaves by 
 Mr. R. H. Shepherd, and India proof portraits of 
 Tennyson and the Duke have been inserted. Tenny- 
 son is said to have received ;^200 for the poem. 
 
 28 
 
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
 ODE ON THE DEATH OF THE DUKE 
 OF WELLINGTON. Second Edition. 
 London, 1 853. 8vo, original blue paper cover, 
 uncut and unopened. 
 
 Collation : Half-title, title and text, 1-16. 
 
 ODE 
 
 ON THB DEATH 
 
 DUKE OF WELLINGTON. 
 
 Bl USSSD TliHNrSON, 
 
 totisaifi 
 
 EDW4B0 MOXOH, DOTIB STBEBT. 
 un 
 
 The ninth line of this second edition, 
 
 " He died on Walmer's lonely shore," 
 
 appears only in this edition, having been suppressed 
 
 in the later version. Shepherd says that this second 
 
 edition is " of much greater rarity than the first edi- 
 
 29 
 
WORKS OF 
 
 ODE ON THE DEATH OF WELLINGTON, i&Sd—Contimtai 
 
 tion." It seems, however, as if the " small remain- 
 der " he speaks of had recently been put upon the 
 market. 
 
 POEMS. Eighth Edition, London, 1853. 
 i2mo, original cloth, uncut. 
 
 Collation : Half-title, title, dedicatory poem and Con- 
 tents, pp. i-xii; half-title and text pp. 1-379; note and 
 imprint, p. 380. 
 This edition includes one new poem, here first 
 published : " To E. L., on his travels in Greece." It 
 was addressed to Edward Lear. Another poem, 
 "The Sea-Fairies," which had appeared in Poems 
 Chiefly Lyrical in 1830, was for the first time re- 
 printed in this eighth edition. The text was altered. 
 This edition is of especial interest, aside from these 
 two additions, because the text of all the poems in- 
 cluded, here take on their final form. It is said that 
 none of the poems were afterwards altered in any later 
 edition of Poems or Works. 
 
 Moxon's Catalogue, 8 pages, dated October, 1852, 
 is bound in. 
 
 THE PRINCESS. Fifth Edition. Lon- 
 don, 1853. i6mo, original cloth, uncut. 
 
 Collation : Half-title and dedication, pp. i-v ; text, pp. 
 2-183. 
 
 Lines 35 to 49 of the Prologue, beginning 
 " ' O miracle of woman,' said the book," 
 first appeared in this edition. 
 
 Moxon's Catalogue, 8 pages, dated October, 1852, 
 is bound in. 
 
 30 
 
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
 MAUD AND OTHER POEMS. 1 London, 
 
 1855. i6mo, original cloth, uncut. 
 
 Collation : Half-title, title, Contents and half-title, pp. 
 i-vii; text, pp. 1-154; advertisement, p. 155. 
 
 A portion of " Maud " had been printed under the 
 title of " Stanzas " in The Tribute as early as 1837. 
 These verses, considerably altered, form Section 
 XXIV of the poem as here printed. 
 
 Tennyson himself wrote : " Sir John Simeon years 
 after begged me to weave a story round this poem, 
 and so ' Maud ' came into being." In this note he 
 says the verses originally appeared in The Keepsake, 
 but it was another Annual, The Tribute. 
 
 A friend (Aubrey de Vere) has also said, in refer- 
 ence to the writing of " Maud " : 
 
 " It had struck him, in consequence, I think, of a suggestion 
 made by Sir John Simeon, that to render the poem intelligible, 
 a preceding one was necessary. He wrote it ; the second poem, 
 too, required a predecessor ; and thus the whole work was writ- 
 ten, as it were, backwards." 
 
 In " The Building of the Idylls " Mr. Wise says 
 that there are copies extant of an "ante-natal 
 Maud," but gives no description of the book. It may 
 have been only a proof-sheet issue, however, such as 
 is mentioned by Shepherd. The title of the poem 
 was then " Maud, or The Madness." 
 
 The other poems in the volume besides " Maud " 
 are: 
 
 The Brook. 
 
 The Letters. 
 
 Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington. 
 
 The Daisy. 
 
 31 
 
WORKS OF 
 
 MAUD AND OTHER POEMS, 18SS— Continued 
 
 To the Rev. F. D. Maurice. 
 
 Will. 
 
 The Charge of the Light Brigade. 
 
 MAUD, 
 
 AND OTHEB FOEMS. 
 
 ALFRED TENNYSON, D.C.L.. 
 
 POET LAUMATI, 
 
 LOKSON: 
 
 EDWABD MOXON, DOVEE STEEET. 
 
 ISSC. 
 
 " The Charge of the Light Brigade " here appears 
 in book-form for the first time, having been written 
 •on December 2d and printed first in the Examiner 
 of December 9, 1854. It is here much altered. The 
 expression " Some one had blundered," which, read 
 by Tennyson in the London Times, was the inspira- 
 
 32 
 
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
 MAUD AND OTHER POEMS, li^i— Continued 
 
 tion and key of the poem, and which occurred twice 
 in the Examiner version, was here struck out entirely. 
 Ruskin wrote on November 12, 1855 : 
 " I am very sorry that you put the ' Some one had blundered ' 
 out of ' The Light Brigade.' It was precisely the most tragical 
 line in the poem. It is as true to its history as essential to its 
 tragedy." 
 
 But before this Tennyson had restored the line in 
 one stanza, in a third version, the form in which it is 
 found in later editions. This version first saw the 
 light in a separate issue of the poem on a single 
 quarto sheet, four pages, printed at Tennyson's own 
 cost for distribution among the soldiers before Sebas- 
 topol. This separate issue had the following prefa- 
 tory note, dated August 8, 1855. 
 
 " Having heard that the brave soldiers at Sebastopol, whom 
 I am proud to call my countrymen, have a liking for my ballad 
 on the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava, I have ordered 
 a thousand copies of it to be printed for them. No writing of 
 mine can add to the glory they have acquired in the Crimea; but 
 if what I heard be true, they will not be displeased to receive 
 these copies of the ballad from me, and to know that those who 
 sit at home love and honour them." 
 
 A long letter from Tennyson to John Forster, giv- 
 ing instructions for the printing of this separate issue, 
 is found on pages 386 and 387 of Vol. I of the Memoir. 
 In it Tennyson says that he is convinced that " this 
 is the best version " and that " the criticism of two or 
 three London friends" induced him to "spoil" the 
 poem when reprinting it with " Maud." 
 
 Laid in this copy is a tracing of a proof-sheet, hav- 
 ing corrections by Tennyson, of a very early version 
 
 33 
 
WORKS OF 
 
 MAUD AND OTHER POEMS, liss— Continued 
 
 as put in type for printing in the Examiner. Origi- 
 nally the lines 
 
 " Flashed all their sabres bare, 
 Flash'd all at once in air " 
 read 
 
 " He saw their sabres bare 
 Flash all at once in air," 
 
 and the last stanza, which in the current editions 
 
 agrees exactly with the Examiner text, having six 
 
 lines, in this proof-sheet version has seven, the fifth 
 
 line, 
 
 " No man was there afraid," 
 
 having been struck out by Tennyson in the proof. 
 
 The original of this proof-sheet is priced by a New 
 
 York bookseller at one thousand dollars. 
 
 MAUD AND OTHER POEMS. A New 
 
 Edition. London, 1856. i6mo, original 
 
 cloth, uncut. 
 
 Collation : Half-title, title. Contents and half-title, pp. 
 i-vii; text, pp. 1-164; advertisement, i page. 
 
 Considerable additions were made to " Maud " in 
 this second edition. The text of " The Charge of 
 the Light Brigade " is that of the separate issue. 
 
 <ENONE. [London], 1857. i6mo, original 
 blank glazed paper cover. 
 
 Collation : Title, dedication and text, pp. 1-29 ; blank, 
 p. 30; imprint, p. 31. 
 
 This is an excessively rare, privately printed edi- 
 tion of Tennyson's poem " GEnone, " accompanied, 
 
 34 
 
ALFRED. LORD TENNYSON 
 
 CENONE, lSS7—Cottiinueci 
 
 on pages facing, by a Latin translation of the same, 
 by Lord Lyttleton. A copy sold for £$$ at Sothe- 
 by's in 1899, The poem itself first appeared in 1833, 
 but was much modified when it was reprinted in 1842. 
 
 Note : The gradual growth of the series of blank verse poems 
 into the Arthurian epic " Idylls of the King," is an interesting 
 study both bibliographical and literary. The last of the series, 
 describing the death of Arthur, was the first written and printed. It 
 appeared in the privately printed volume Marie D' Arthur ; Dora 
 and Other Idylls in 1842 as described on pages 17 to 19. In 1856 
 the author was writing other " Idylls," two of which were printed pri- 
 vately in 1857 as a "trial book"only, under the title oi Enid and Nimue; 
 or, the True and the False, The second of these two, " Nimue " 
 is the one afterwards called " Vivien." Of this earliest edition the 
 only copy at present known is the one in the British Museum. 
 
 These two ' ' Idylls" appear again in a second ' ' trial book," of which 
 there are two varieties, both with the title The True and the False. 
 Four Idylls of the King. Ot each of these but a single copy is 
 known. A full account of these interesting " trial books," giving a 
 series of variations — for the text of all of them vary — may be found 
 in " The Building of the Idylls," by Mr. Thomas J. Wise, in liter- 
 ary Anecdotes 0/ the Nineteenth Century, Vol. II. 
 
 Finally the four " Idylls " appeared in 1859 in the published book 
 with the title Idylls of the King. 
 
 IDYLLS OF THE KING. London, 1859. 
 
 i6tno, original cloth, uncut. 
 
 Collation : Half-title, title, Contents, and half-title, pp. 
 i-vii ; text, pp. 1-261. 
 
 Four " Idylls " are included in this volume, the text 
 varying from the " trial issues " in which they had 
 already been printed but not published. The titles 
 in this edition are : 
 Enid. 
 
 35 
 
WORKS OF 
 
 IDYLLS OF THE KING, iSsg—ConitHued 
 
 Vivien. 
 Elaine. 
 Guinevere. 
 The title of " Enid" was changed, at least as early 
 
 roiLLS 
 
 OF THK 
 
 u 
 
 KING. 
 
 ALFRED 
 
 TENNYSON. 
 
 D.CL, 
 
 
 
 lOKBOS: 
 
 IBSt. 
 
 as 1872 to "Geraint and Enid" and the poem was 
 divided into two sections numbered I and 11. Fin- 
 ally in the edition of 1888 these two parts were separ- 
 ated, each forming an " Idyll," with the titles " The 
 Marriage of Geraint," and "Geraint and Enid." 
 " Vivien " became " Merlin and Vivien " and 
 
 36 
 
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
 IDYLLS OF THE KING. iii()—ConHnued 
 
 "Elaine" became "Launcelot and Elaine," in the 
 later editions. "Guinevere," with title unchanged, 
 was put at the end of the series, followed only by 
 "The Passing of Arthur." 
 
 The first edition of the book consisted of forty 
 thousand copies, of which ten thousand were said to 
 have been sold the first week of publication. The 
 catalogue bound in is dated July, 1859. 
 
 THE SAILOR BOY. London, 1861. i6mo, 
 
 original printed paper cover. 
 
 Collation : Half-title, title and text, pp. 1-8. 
 
 This poem was contributed to The Victoria Regia, 
 A Christmas Miscellany, edited and published by 
 Emily Faithfull, who had founded a printing estab- 
 lishment in London in which only female composi- 
 tors were employed. Thackeray and James Russell 
 Lowell were also contributors to the volume. 
 
 Twenty-five copies of Tennyson's poem were 
 printed separately, as above. This separate issue was 
 unknown to Shepherd or to Dr. Rolfe. The cover 
 of the little pamphlet was evidently printed from the 
 same types as the title-page, but is surrounded by a 
 border built up from printer's ornaments. Below 
 the border the words " 25 Copies for the Author's 
 Use," were added. The outside page of back cover 
 has the same border, but in the center are only the 
 words "The Victoria Press." As printed in The 
 Victoria Regia the poem is not divided into stanzas. 
 In this separate issue it is printed as six stanzas of 
 four lines each. 
 
 37 
 
WORKS OF 
 
 THE SAILOR BOY, liti— Continued 
 
 The poem was included in the " Enoch Arden " 
 volume in 1864, but it is there somewhat altered 
 from this earliest text. 
 
 THE SAILOR BOY. 
 
 ALFRED TENNYSON, D.C.L. 
 
 LONDON 1 
 EMILV F4JTHFULL « CO., VICTORIA PRESS. 
 
 iser. 
 
 HELEN'S TOWER. Clandeboye, 1861. 
 
 4to, in the original blank green glazed paper 
 
 cover. 
 
 Collation : 7 leaves, the last blank, as described below. 
 
 The tower which Tennyson's poem commemorates 
 was erected by Lord Duilerin on his estate near Bel- 
 
 38 
 
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
 HELEN'S TOWER, l&t\— Continued 
 
 fast in Ireland, in memory of his mother. In a let- 
 ter to Tennyson, dated September 24, 1861, printed 
 in the Memoir, he says, in part : 
 
 " Now there is only one thing wanting to make it a perfect 
 little gem of architecture and decoration, and that is ' a voice.' 
 It is now ten years since it was built and all that time it has 
 stood silent. Yet if he chose there is one person in the world 
 able to endow it with this priceless gift, and by sending me some 
 little short distich for it to crown it for ever with a glory it can- 
 not otherwise obtain, and render it a memorial of the personal 
 friendship which its builder felt for the great poet of our age." 
 
 In the letter above quoted Lord Dufferin says that 
 in 1861 the tower had already been built ten years, 
 and a careful examination of the pamphlet of which 
 Tennyson's verses form a part, leads us to believe 
 that the book itself was printed in 1850 or 1851. As 
 originally made up it seems to have consisted of four 
 leaves, the last blank with an engraved title, printed 
 separately on heavy paper, the whole enclosed in a 
 glazed paper cover, with lining and fly leaf, back and 
 front, of a gilt-starred paper, and with blank white 
 fly leaf at back and front. The first leaf has on the 
 recto, printed in red and black : 
 
 " XXth day of November MDCCCL. This day at 3 of ye clock 
 did I Catherine Hamilton christen this Tower by ye name style 
 and title of Helen's Tower. Catherine Hamilton." 
 
 This is followed by the names of thirteen wit- 
 nesses. 
 
 Page 2 is blank. Pages 3 to 5 are filled by the 
 verses written by Lord Dufferin's mother and given to 
 him when he became of age. These verses are dated 
 at end "June2ist, 1847." Pages 6, 7 and 8 were blank. 
 
 39 
 
WORKS OF 
 
 HELEN'S TOWER, liti— Continued 
 
 On receipt of Tennyson's verses a new leaf seems to 
 have been printed. It contains this inscription on recto: 
 
 "On Wednesday, October 23, 1861, Helen's Tower was fin- 
 ished, and the flag hoisted by us." 
 
 This is signed by Helen McDonnell and Harriot 
 Hamilton. Tennyson's verses are on verso of this 
 leaf. The blank leaf at end, pages 7 and 8 of the or- 
 iginal pamphlet, was cut out, and on the stub which 
 was left this new leaf was mounted, forming pages 7 
 and 8 of the present book. 
 
 Again in 1870 Lord Dufferin had still a new leaf 
 printed. This contains a poem, " Helen's Tower," 
 by Robert Browning, dated April 26, 1870. This is 
 printed on the recto of the first leaf of a sheet of two 
 leaves, pages 2 to 4 of which are blank. These two 
 leaves were inserted by gumming them upon the leaf 
 containing the Tennyson poem. 
 
 A copy of Helen's Tower, apparently lacking the 
 last leaf containing Browning's poem, sold at 
 Sotheby's in 1900 for ;f 56. Tennyson's poem was 
 first reprinted by him in the " Teresias " volume in 
 1885, though it had been printed in Good Words in 
 January, 1884, with a description of the tower by 
 Charles Blatherwick. 
 
 ODE FOR THE OPENING OF THE 
 INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. 
 London, 1862. i6mo, red levant morocco, 
 by Rivifere. 
 
 Collation : Half-title, title and text, pp. 1-8. 
 40 
 
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
 INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION ODE, liti—ConHnued 
 
 This separate issue of the " Ode/' was unknown to 
 Shepherd or to Dr. Rolfe. It was undoubtedly 
 printed in a very small number, In a letter dated 
 only 1861, printed in the Memoir, Tennyson says : 
 
 ODE 
 
 FOB THE OPENINO OP 
 TBB INTERNATIONAL EXBIBITION. 
 
 ALFRED TENNYSON. P.L. D.C.L 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 EDWARD MOXON * 00, DOVER STREET, 
 
 1862. 
 
 " I have half consented to write a little ode on the opening of 
 the International Exhibition. The commissioners prest me : I 
 should never have volunteered ; for I hate a subject given me, 
 and still more if that subject be a public one." 
 
 In his journal his son states that the ode was " re- 
 cited in a rolling voice" on January 9, 1862. It 
 
 41 
 
WORKS OF 
 
 INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION ODE, \%(i2— Continued 
 
 had probably then just been finished. It appeared 
 in The Times of April 24, 1862, with the title "May 
 the First, 1862," and in Fraser's Magazine for June, 
 1862. It was apparently first collected in the six. 
 volume edition of Works, 1872, 
 
 Although this is the first separate edition it is not 
 the earliest version. When the poem was published 
 in Fraser's it was as part of an article on the Exhibi- 
 tion, with this comment. 
 
 " The Poet Laureate's Ode was happily wedded to appropriate 
 music by Prof. Sterndale Bennett. By some great breach of 
 faith this Ode fell into the all-devouring jaws of the Times, 
 where it was printed so incorrectly that we think our readers 
 will be glad to see it as it was originally written, including three 
 lines which have been omitted. 
 
 " A curious misprint was made by the Times in printing this 
 Ode. The copy from which it was printed was marked for music, 
 and before the word art in the line 
 
 ' And shapes and hues of art divine ' 
 
 a large P was affixed, signifying Piano. The word consequently 
 was printed Part, neither compositor or reader having sufficient 
 astuteness to detect the error, which was reproduced in all the 
 copies." 
 
 Except for the three suppressed lines : 
 
 " War himself must make alliance 
 With rough Labour and fine Science . 
 Else he would but strike in vain" — 
 
 which are inserted after 
 
 " The works of peace with works of war" — 
 
 the text in Fraser's agrees with that of the edition set 
 to music, as next described. There are, however, 
 
 42 
 
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
 INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION ODE, libi— Continued 
 
 several variations between the text of this private 
 issue and that of the eariier version. 
 Stanza IV in the earlier version reads : 
 
 " And is the goal so far away ? 
 Far, how far no man can say : 
 Let us have our dream to day." 
 
 In this private issue and also in the current editions, 
 this stanza reads : 
 
 " Is the goal so far away ? 
 
 Far, how far no tongue can say : 
 
 Let us dream our dream to-day." 
 
 These three lines were omitted entirely when the 
 poem was first collected in the Works ol 1872. They 
 were, however, restored in later editions. 
 
 Again, the last line here reads : 
 
 " And gathering all the fruits of peace and crown'd with all 
 her flowers." 
 
 While the private issue and the current editions 
 read: 
 
 •' And gathering all the fruits of earth and crown'd with all her 
 flowers." 
 
 The entire text as given in Fraser's, including the 
 three suppressed lines, was reprinted by Shepherd in 
 his little collection of 1875 although not included in 
 those of 1870. 
 
 From all this it would seem that the edition as set 
 to music is actually the first edition. Confirmatory 
 evidence is found in the dates of printing found on 
 the separate parts as set to music. 
 
 43 
 
WORKS OF 
 
 ODE FOR THE OPENING OF THE 
 INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. 
 
 Set to Music by Sterndale Bennett. 
 
 London, 1862. 4 parts, folio, sewed. 
 
 This is the " Ode " as set to music and sung on 
 May first at the opening of the Exhibition. In Part 
 II (Contralto) pages 3 and 5 are stamped " Proof 
 from Manuscript." Parts I and II have printed at 
 the end in small type, " 12, 4, 62 " and Parts III and 
 IV have " 17, 6, 62," meaning, apparently, that the 
 first two parts were printed on the 12th of April, 
 1862, and the last two on the 17th of June, 1862. If 
 this is the meaning of these figures Parts III and IV 
 are not first editions in this set. 
 
 As outlined above this almost certainly antedates 
 the separate issue already described, and even the un- 
 authorized appearance in the Times. 
 
 IDYLLS OF THE KING. New Edition. 
 London, 1862. Title, Dedication and con- 
 tents only, as separately issued. i6mo, un- 
 bound, uncut. 
 
 After the death of the Prince Consort, Tennyson, 
 wishing to honor his memory, dedicated the second 
 edition of the Idylls of the King to him as he had been a 
 warm admirer of the book. The two half-titles were 
 omitted, making four preliminary leaves in this, as 
 well as in the first edition. A few copies of this sig- 
 nature containing the dedication were pulled off for 
 distribution, probably, to those having copies of the 
 first edition, which, of course, were without dedication. 
 
 44 
 
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
 POEMS. MDCCCXXX. MDCCCXXXIIL 
 Privately Printed, 1862. i6mo, original 
 blue paper cover, uncut and unopened. 
 
 Collation : Title, half-title and Contents, pp. i-viii ; text, 
 pp. 1-112. 
 
 This is Hotten's pirated volume, said by Mr. Wise 
 to have been edited by J. Dykes Campbell, and to 
 have been printed in the island of Mauritius. Shep- 
 herd says that he " never saw a copy " and that he 
 did not " know its contents." It contains all of 
 Tennyson's poems printed in the 1830 and 1833 
 volumes, which were suppressed in the 1842 edition, 
 as well as alterations and variations. 
 
 In Hotten's Catalogue of July, 1862 (we quote 
 from Tennyson's "Amended Bill of Complaint"), 
 the book is thus described : 
 
 "The Lost Poems of the Poet Laureate. These are the 
 choice poems that have been dropped or thrown aside by the 
 Poet during his literary career. They have been collected with 
 considerable care and labor by a gentleman of great literary 
 taste in Western Canada. The little volume also includes 
 variations in the text and the successive changes that have 
 taken place in the growing up of the Poem. It is understood 
 that only an exceedingly limited number of copies have been 
 taken off most creditably in point of workmanship at the Back- 
 woods press.*' 
 
 This statement that the book was printed in Can- 
 ada has often been repeated. It is, of course, false. 
 The book is accompanied in this set by the following 
 very interesting document : 
 
 In Chancery. Between Alfred Tennyson, Plaintiff, and John 
 Camden Hotten, Defendant. Amended Bill of Complaint. 
 
 45 
 
WORKS OF 
 
 POEMS, iS()2—ConiiMued I 
 
 Filedsoth July, 1862. Amended ist August, 1862, 8 pages, 
 folio, sewed. 
 
 Though probably not actually drawn up by Tenny- 
 son himself, the words are technically his and the docu- 
 ment is of considerable interest. Mr. Wise, in the 
 proof-sheets before us, quotes in extenso the original 
 Bill of Complaint, dated July 30th, but does not 
 mention this Amended Bill. He states that the 
 injunction prayed for was granted on the 31st day 
 of July, but if so, we wonder why this Amended Bill 
 dated August i, was prepared and printed. Mr. 
 Wise also states that the case " was ultimately set- 
 tled by private arrangement between Counsel, the 
 Defendant making a most humble apology, paying 
 one hundred pounds, and delivering up all copies in 
 his possession or power." 
 
 Shepherd mentions an " Order of the Court " sup- 
 pressing the book, but does not give its date. 
 
 A WELCOME. London, 1863. i6mo, un- 
 bound. 
 
 Collation ; Title and text, pp. 1-4. 
 
 These lines were written in honor of the present 
 Queen of England on the occasion of her arrival from 
 Denmark, March 7, 1863, as the betrothed of King 
 Edward VII, then Prince of Wales. They were mar- 
 ried on March loth. This leaflet form was printed 
 early in March and is the earliest issue. The text was 
 considerably amplified when the poem was published 
 in the " Enoch Arden " volume the next year. 
 
 46 
 
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
 A WELCOME TO HER ROYAL HIGH- 
 NESS THE PRINCESS OF WALES. 
 London, 1863. Imperial 8vo, cloth. 
 
 This elaborately ornamented edition has the same 
 text as the leaflet and was probably issued shortly after. 
 
 A WELCOME. 
 
 ALFRED TENNYSON, D.C.L., 
 
 niT uuwiATa 
 
 LOKDOK: 
 EDWARD tlOXON ft CO., DOVCB STKGCr. 
 
 ISItt. 
 
 The other was certainly printed before the marriage 
 and this after. The illuminations are by Owen Jones. 
 
 IDYLLS OF THE HEARTH. London, 
 1864. i6mo, olive levant morocco, elabor- 
 ately tooled, gilt top, uncut. 
 
 Collation : Title and Contents, pp. i-iv ; text, pp. 1-178. 
 
 47 
 
WORKS OF 
 
 IDYLLS OF THE HEARTH, \%tii—ConHnued 
 
 It was originally intended to publish the " Enoch 
 Arden" volume under the above title. In this 
 form the book is extremely rare, Mr. Charles B. 
 
 IDYLLS OF THE HEABTH. 
 
 ALFRED TENItTSOI}. P.Is O.CU 
 
 tONDOB; 
 
 SPWAKD MOZON ili CO., DOVSR SIBEBr., 
 
 1864. 
 
 Foote's copy with a few slight corrections in the 
 autograph of the author, having sold for $225.00 in 
 1895. The book differs from Enoch Arden, Etc., only 
 in the title-page and Table of Contents, which, be- 
 ing part of the same sheet as the title, was re- 
 printed. 
 
 48 
 
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
 ENOCH ARDEN, etc. London, 1864. i6mo, 
 cloth, uncut. 
 
 Collation : Title and Contents, pp. i-iii; text, pp. 1-178. 
 
 As stated above, this is the published form of the 
 book which was first prepared for issue under the 
 title of Idylls of the Hearth. It is probable that the 
 first signature for the entire edition was printed with 
 the earlier title, and that in all except a very few 
 copies already sent out the sheet was destroyed and 
 the new one, containing reprinted title and Contents, 
 was substituted before the books were bound. 
 
 This volume contains one poem, " The Ringlet," 
 54 lines, which was suppressed by the poet in all later 
 editions of his works. 
 
 Several of the poems in the volume had previously 
 appeared in periodicals, and one, "The Sailor Boy," 
 had appeared in an Annual, The Victoria Regia, as 
 well as separately, as already described. 
 
 "The Grandmother" appeared originally in Once 
 a Week for July 16, 1859. I* was there entitled 
 " The Grandmother's Apology." 
 
 "Sea Dreams" appeared in Macmillan's Mag- 
 azine for January, i860 ; " Tithonus " in Cornhill 
 for February, i860 ; and the "Specimen of a Trans- 
 lation of the Iliad " in Cornhill for December, 1863. 
 
 A SELECTION FROM THE WORKS 
 OF ALFRED TENNYSON. Lon- 
 don, 1865. 1 6mo, sheets, folded, uncut and 
 unopened. 
 
 Collation: Half-title, title and Contents, pp. i-vii; 
 text, pp. 1-256; frontispiece portrait printed separately. 
 
 49 
 
WORKS OF 
 
 SELECTION FROM WORKS, 1S65— Continued 
 
 This volume contains three poems here first pub- 
 lished : 
 
 The Captain, 
 
 Three Sonnets to a Coquette, 
 On a Mourner. 
 In addition there are included variations in two of 
 the songs of "The Princess," These seem to be 
 earlier versions than those printed in the third edi- 
 tion of the poem in 1850, This version of these two 
 songs was never afterwards reprinted in any author- 
 ized edition of the author's works. 
 
 THE WINDOW, OR THE LOVES OF 
 THE WRENS, Canford Manor, 1867. 
 4to, red levant morocco, uncut, by Riviere. 
 
 Collation : Printer's mark, (the initials I. B, G. inter- 
 twined), half-title, title, and dedication, each one leaf ; 
 text, 15 leaves, printed on one side only, followed by a 
 blank leaf. 
 
 These verses were written while Tennyson was vis- 
 iting at Canford Manor, and were first printed, with 
 Tennyson's permission, at the private press of his 
 host. Sir Ivor Bertie Guest. The marks on the title- 
 page, "=, -^i X< 7" are said to be the private marks 
 of the amateur compositors, Lord Wimborne, Lady 
 Layard, Lady Charlotte Schreiber and Mrs. E. Pon- 
 sonby. 
 
 The volume has this dedication : 
 
 " These little songs whose almost sole merit, / at least till 
 they are wedded to music, / is that they are so excellently 
 printed, / I Dedicate / to / The Printer." 
 
 50 
 
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
 THE WINDOW, x'ib'j—ConHnued 
 
 The Memoir states that it was at the suggestion of 
 Sir George Grove that Tennyson undertook to write 
 a series of songs to be set to music, but in the pref- 
 
 THE WINDOW. 
 
 THE LOVES OF THE WRENS 
 
 ALFRED TENNYSON. D. C L. 
 
 POET LAUREATE. 
 
 CANIKSUD' lUNOB. 
 
 =^'».t.7- 
 
 UDCCCLXVIL 
 
 atory note to the published edition with the music 
 Tennyson says : " Four years ago Mr. Sullivan re- 
 quested me to write a little song cycle, German fash- 
 ion, for him to exercise his art upon." 
 
 The text of the poem in this private edition differs 
 considerably from all the published versions. The 
 principal changes are made in Sections V and VL 
 
 51 
 
WORKS OF 
 
 THE WINDOW, l^t^— Continued 
 
 Section V here contains three stanzas of eight lines 
 each. The second, which was omitted in the pub- 
 lished versions, is : 
 
 " Birds' love and men's love, 
 
 Once and once for all ; 
 And you so small and you so fair, 
 
 You so fair and small ! 
 You so fair ! am I so black ? 
 
 Aren't we birds of a feather ? 
 You so small! am I so tall? 
 
 Can't we come together ? " 
 
 The poem was first collected in the Cabinet Edi- 
 tion of Works in 1874. 
 
 Note : " The Victim " was the title of a second poem printed 
 by titled compositors at the Canford Manor Press. It was first is- 
 sued in small octavo and of this edition only a single copy, now 
 owned by Mr. WiUiam Harris Arnold, is known to exist. These 
 copies seem to have been destroyed when the decision was arrived at 
 to issue "TheVictim" in quarto, uniform with "The Window." Mrs. 
 Tennyson's journal of December i, 1867, says : " ' The Song of the 
 Wrens ' and ' The Victim,' printed at the Canford Press, received 
 ■from Sir Ivor Guest." 
 
 "TheVictim"' was printed in Good Words in January, 1868, and 
 in the " Holy Grail " volume in 1869 (dated 1870). 
 
 LUCRETIUS. Cambridge, Mass., 1868. 
 
 Square i6mo, cloth, uncut. 
 
 Collation : Half-title, title, prefatory note and text, 
 pp. 1-27. 
 
 This poem appeared simultaneously vsxMacmillarCs 
 Magazine in England, and in Every Saturday in this 
 •country, in May, 1868. It was not reprinted by its 
 
 52 
 
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
 LUCRETIUS, libi— Continued 
 
 author until it appeared in the " Holy Grail " vol- 
 ume, dated 1870, though issued in 1869. This edi- 
 tion was, however, set up and printed in this country. 
 It has the following introductory note by James T. 
 Pields : 
 
 LUCRETIUS 
 
 ■T 
 
 ALFRED TENNTSON 
 'Put ItHirult 
 
 OAMBBIDOi; UASS, 
 
 IVMUl /or frimt ObtultUm 
 
 I86S 
 
 " The following noble poem having been published simultan- 
 «ously in the United States and England, — in Every Saturday 
 (Boston) and in Macmillan' s Magazine (London) — it might 
 have been expected that a separate issue of it would soon have 
 been published, so that Mr. Tennyson's admirers might have 
 it in the convenient form of a book. No such volume having 
 
 53 
 
WORKS OF 
 
 LUCRETIUS, iSbS— Continued 
 
 appeared in London yet, the present writer has thought it well 
 to get a few copies printed in a modest form for the use of 
 himself and friends, and has not scrupled to retain a passage 
 describing the Oread (the passage enclosed in a parenthesis at 
 page 20) which appears in Every Saturday but not in Macmil- 
 lan, having been cancelled in the latter after the advance sheets 
 for the former had left the poet's hands. 
 
 " Two other variations between the Boston and London ver- 
 sions will be found noted at the bottom of the pages where 
 they respectively occur. The printers of the Boston version do 
 not admit that there was any blundering on their part in either 
 case ; but the present writer cannot think that Mr. Tennyson 
 ever wrote either the line — 
 
 ' Tickling the brute within the man's brain,' 
 or that he made use of the expression chilly want and then 
 altered it to childly wont. He must have written childly wont, 
 and some one who did not understand what it meant must have 
 substituted chilly want as a probable cause of prayer ! " 
 
 It is curious that, though printed in this country, 
 no copies seem to turn up here in the market. The 
 first copy to be offered at auction was one which 
 brought £\2 in the Crampon sale in 1896. The 
 auctioneer's catalogue stated that only twenty copies 
 were printed. 
 
 Note : Under the date 1833 we have noted the trial edition of 
 The Lover^s Tale issued in that year. In 1869, the poem, with 
 many alterations and the addition of a new third part, was again put 
 in type. Apparently some copies of the book were printed off, as in 
 his suit in chancery to restrain R. H. Shepherd from issuing his 
 pirated edition of the poem, Tennyson testified that " all copies of 
 the reprint (of 1869) were destroyed." Notwithstanding this state- 
 ment, two sets of proof-sheets of this edition were preserved, one by 
 Tennyson himself, the other by his publisher, Strahan. The former 
 found its way into the collection of the late Frederick Locker-Lamp- 
 son and the latter into that of Mr. Thomas J. Wise. 
 
 54 
 
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
 THE HOLY GRAIL AND OTHER 
 POEMS. London, 1870. i6mo, original 
 cloth, uncut. 
 
 Collation: Half-title, title and Contents, pp. i-vi; half- 
 title and text, pp. 1-222 ; advertisements, i leaf. 
 
 Though dated 1870 on the title-page the volume 
 was issued in December, 1869. Four new blank- 
 verse poems form a second series of " Idylls of the 
 King": 
 
 The Coming of Arthur. 
 The Holy Grail. 
 Pelleas and Ettarre. 
 The Passing of Arthur. 
 With the latter is incorporated the early poem 
 ^'Morte D' Arthur." Besides these "Idylls" the 
 volume includes several other pieces printed for the 
 first time, as well as " The Victim " and " Lucretius," 
 which had already been privately printed in book 
 form, and a poem, "Wages," ten lines, which had 
 appeared in Macmillan's Magazine ior February, 1868. 
 Inserted in this copy is the original manuscript of 
 nine lines of " The Coming of Arthur," in Tenny- 
 son's autograph : 
 
 " Far shone the fields of May thro' open door. 
 The sacred altar blossom'd white with May, 
 The Sun of May descended on their King, 
 They gazed on all earth's beauty in their Queen, 
 RoU'd incense, & there passed among the hymns 
 A voice as of the waters, while the two 
 Sware at the shrine of Christ a deathless love ; 
 And Arthur said, • man's word is God in man. 
 I love thee, & I trust thee, to the death.' " 
 
 55 
 
WORKS OF 
 
 THE HOLY GRAIL, l^^o— Continued 
 
 These lines do not appear in this first eiHtion, but 
 appear in the 1872 and all later editions. From the 
 appearance of the manuscript it seems probable that 
 instead of being new lines written for the revised 
 edition they are really part of the original version, 
 at first suppressed, but afterward restored. When 
 restored, the last two lines are altered, and in the 
 1872 and later editions read : 
 
 " And Arthur said, ' Behold, thy doom is mine. 
 
 Let chance what will, I love thee to the death.' " 
 
 In the fifth line the word " among " in the manu- 
 script is " along" in the 1872 and later editions. 
 
 In this connection it is curious to note that the 
 eighth line, as it appears in this manuscript, was 
 used in the revised edition, earlier in the poem and a 
 modification of the ninth line as well : 
 
 "And Arthur said, ' Man's word is God in man ; 
 Let chance what will, I trust thee to the death." 
 
 Many other new lines were inserted, or perhaps 
 suppressed lines restored, in the 1872 edition of this 
 poem. 
 
 THE LOVER'S TALE. London, 1870. 
 
 i6mo, sewed, uncut. 
 
 Collation: Title and introduction, pp. i-viii ; half-title 
 and text, pp. 1-47. 
 
 This is the earliest, according to Mr. Wise, of 
 Richard Heme Shepherd's six pirated editions of 
 The Lover's Tale, first printed in 1833, but suppressed. 
 This edition was printed in August, 1870, from the 
 
 56 
 
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
 THE LOVER'S TALE, lZ^o— Continued 
 
 copy of the original which Mr. Basil Montague 
 Pickering had purchased at auction at Sotheby's in 
 June of that year. Immediately after publication 
 
 'T'HE LOVER'S TALE 
 
 BV ALFRED TENNYSON 
 
 WIA • H<»i«n«(> 
 
 I; ai Aialnc d ••.Tmnnt^r 
 
 LOHDOH 
 
 Bfy C>tla t*aa fit.t<ritilt CimbKm 
 
 «.D.ccanx.' 
 
 pressure was brought to bear upon both Shepherd 
 and Pickering and the book was suppressed. 
 
 On verso of title-page is the inscription, " Price 
 Twenty Shillings." The bibliographical introduction 
 is dated at end "August, 1870," and is signed " The 
 Author of Tennysoniana." 
 
 57 
 
WORKS OF 
 
 THE WINDOW; OR, THE LOVES OF 
 THE WRENS. [London, 1870.] i6mo, 
 sewed, uncut and unopened. 
 
 Collation: Titleand text, pp. 1-16. 
 
 Shepherd has told how he pieced together this 
 poem from the references of Mr. Barron Bright- 
 well's Concordance to Tennyson's Works, "with the 
 compiler's aid, who supplied the lacunae (though he 
 had promised not to give any one a copy)," and 
 printed it privately a few weeks before the first pub- 
 lished edition appeared. The text is that of the 
 Canford Manor edition, and includes the stanza quoted 
 on page 52 which seems never to have been included 
 in any published version. 
 
 POEMS. [London, Printed for R. Herne 
 Shepherd, 1870.] i6mo, sewed, uncut. 
 
 Collation : Title and text, pp. 1-16. 
 
 With his second pirated edition of Tke Lover's 
 Tale, issued in the latter part of 1870, Shepherd is- 
 sued a second part, sixteen pages, containing sixteen 
 pieces by Tennyson which had appeared in various 
 periodicals, but which the author had, for the most 
 part, not considered worthy of being reprinted in any 
 edition of his works. This second part was sold 
 separately at 2 shillings. It is the first collected edition 
 in book form of all the pieces. Except where noted 
 they were never printed with the poet's authorization. 
 
 No More. 
 
 Anacreonatics. 
 
 A Fragment. 
 
 58 
 
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
 POEMS, iSjo— Continued 
 
 These three pieces all originally appeared in TAe 
 Gem for 1831. 
 
 Sonnet. "Check every outflash, every ruder 
 sally." 
 First appeared in The Englishman's Magazine, 
 1831. 
 
 Sonnet. " There are three things which fill my 
 heart with sighs." 
 First appeared in The Yorkshire Literary Annual, 
 1832. 
 
 Sonnet. " Me my own Fate to lasting sorrow 
 doometh." 
 First appeared in Friendship's Offering for 1832. 
 It was reprinted in the Memoir. 
 
 Lines. " Here often, when a child, I lay re- 
 clined." 
 First appeared in The Manchester Athenceum Al- 
 bum, 1850. Reprinted in the Memoir. 
 The New Timon and the Poets. 
 First appeared in Punch, 1846. 
 
 Stanzas. " What time I wasted youthful hours." 
 First appeared in The Keepsake, 1851. 
 Sonnet. "Farewell, Macready, since to-night 
 we part." 
 First appeared in The Household Narrative of Cur- 
 rent Events, 1851. Reprinted in the Collected Works 
 in 1891. 
 
 Britons, Guard Your Own. 
 First appeared in The Examiner, January 31, 1852. 
 Reprinted in the Memoir. 
 Hands all Round. 
 
 59 
 
WORKS OF 
 
 POEMS, l^io— Continued 
 
 First appeared in The Examiner of February 7, 
 1852. Reprinted with " Teresias " in 1885. 
 
 Stanzas on the Marriage of the Princess Royal. 
 "God Bless our Prince and Bride." 
 These two additional stanzas for " God Save the 
 Queen," first appeared in The Times of January 26, 
 1858. They were reprinted in the Memoir. 
 
 The War. " There is a sound of thunder afar." 
 First appeared in The Times, May 9, 1859. ^^" 
 printed as " Riflemen, Form," in The Death of (Enone, 
 in 1892. An earlier form of the poem, entitled " Rifle 
 Clubs," was first printed, from the original manuscript, 
 in New York in 1899. 
 
 Epitaph on the Duchess of Kent. " Long as 
 the heart beats life within her breast." 
 First appeared in The Court Journal, March 19, 
 1864. 
 
 1865-1866. "I stood on a tower in the wet." 
 First appeared in Good Words, March, 1868. 
 
 THE LAST TOURNAMENT. London, 
 1 87 1. i6mo, blue levant morocco, gilt top, 
 uncut, by Riviere. 
 
 Collation : Half-title, title, note, half-title and text, pp. 
 I-S4. 
 This poem appeared in the Contemporary Review 
 for December, 1871, but from certain slight variations, 
 it seems probable that this private issue was printed 
 before the magazine issue. The types and arrange- 
 ment are the same as the other volumes of the Idylls 
 and the book is page for page with the corresponding 
 
 60 
 
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
 THE LAST TOURNAMENT, i.%Ti—ConHnaed 
 
 matter in the volume Gareth and Lynette, published 
 the next year. On the back of the title is this note : 
 
 " The place of this poem among the Idylls of the King is be- 
 tween Pelleas and Ettarre and Guinevere. In the concluding 
 
 THE 
 
 LAST ^TOURNAMENT 
 
 ST ALFRED TENNYSON. DKU. 
 
 STSABAN ft Ca 
 A i-VDOATi niLu LORoan 
 
 volumes of the Library Edition, the whole series will appear in 
 its proper shape and order." 
 
 This is one of the rarest of the Tennyson " trial 
 books," only some six or seven copies being known. 
 The differences between this private 1871 edition 
 
 61 
 
WORKS OF 
 
 THE LAST TOURNAMENT, \%TL—ConHnued 
 
 and the published 1872 text are noted in pencil in 
 the copy of Garetk and Lynette in this set. 
 
 Note : A new section, following No. XXXVIII, beginning 
 " Old warder of these buried bones," 
 was added or restored to "In Memoriam " in the Miniature edition 
 of Works, published in 1871. 
 
 THE WINDOW; OR, THE SONGS OF 
 THE WRENS. With Music by Arthur 
 Sullivan. London, 1871. 4to, cloth. 
 
 Collation : Half-title, title, note and Contents, 4 leaves; 
 text and music, 42 leaves ; slip of errata. 
 
 This is the first published edition and contains a 
 prefatory note by Tennyson, dated, December, 1870. 
 
 " Four years ago Mr. Sullivan requested me to write a little 
 song-cycle, German fashion, for him to exercise his art upon. 
 He had been very successful in setting such old songs, as 
 ' Orpheus with his lute,' and I drest up for him, partly in the old 
 style, a puppet, whose almost only merit is, perhaps, that it can 
 dance to Mr. Sullivan's instrument. I am sorry that my four- 
 year-old puppet should have to dance at all in the dark shadow 
 of these days ; but the music is now completed, and I am bound 
 by my promise." 
 
 The text, as already noted, differs very consider- 
 ably from that of the Canford Manor edition. Sec- 
 tion VI of the poem has in the Table of Contents 
 the note : 
 
 " The music was composed to an earlier version of this song." 
 
 No music was composed to Section X of the poem, 
 although the text is printed as Section IX". Sec- 
 tions XI and XII of the original edition thus become 
 Sections X and XI here. 
 
 62 
 
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
 GARETH AND LYNETTE. London, 
 1872. i6mo, original cloth, uncut. 
 
 Collation : Half-title, title and note, pp. i-v; half-title 
 and text, pp. 1-136 ; List of Books published by Stra- 
 han, pp. i-io. 
 
 This volume, a third series of " Idylls of the King, ' 
 contains only two poems : 
 Gareth and Lynette. 
 The Last Tournament. 
 They have the following prefatory note : 
 
 "Of these two Idylls, Gareth follows The Coming of 
 Arthur, and The Last Tournament immediately precedes 
 Guinevere. The concluding volumes of the Library edition 
 will contain the whole series in its proper sh^e and order." 
 
 " The Last Tournament" had been privately printed 
 the year before, as described above. The variations be- 
 tween that issue and this 1872 edition are noted in 
 pencil in this copy. 
 
 WORKS. Library Edition. London, 1872- 
 73. 6 vols., 8vo, cloth, uncut. 
 
 Several poems appeared for the first time in book 
 form in this collected edition. Among the " Juven- 
 ilia " in Vol. I are two early sonnets, " The Brides- 
 maid " and "Alexander," here published, apparently, 
 for the first time. In Vol. Ill are included four 
 poems contributed to periodicals, but here first col- 
 lected : 
 
 The Third of February, 1852. 
 First appeared in The Examiner, February 7, 1852. 
 Literary Squabbles. 
 
 63 
 
WORKS OF 
 
 WORKS, iSjz-y^i—Centinued 
 
 First appeared in Punch, March 7, 1846. 
 On a Spiteful Letter. 
 
 First appeared in Once a Week, January 4, 1868. 
 On Translations of Homer. 
 
 First appeared in the Cornhill Magazine, December, 
 1863. 
 
 The " Ode Sung at the Opening of the Interna- 
 tional Exhibition," which had been printed in 1862, as 
 already described, is included here in Vol. HI. 
 
 Volumes V and VI, the title-pages of which are 
 dated 1873, contain the series of " Idylls of the King," 
 now for the first time arranged in their correct order. 
 A number of alterations in the text of the separate 
 pieces first appeared in this edition. At the end are 
 four pages of verses "To the Queen," here first 
 printed. These verses seem to have been an after- 
 thought. The text proper of the volume ends on 
 page 294 followed by " The End." This is followed 
 by a blank leaf, which, according to the Table of Con- 
 tents must be counted as pages 295 and 296. After 
 this blank leaf comes the two leaves, four pages of 
 " To the Queen." These pages are not numbered, 
 but in the Contents the verses are indicated as be- 
 ginning on page 297. These verses are not printed 
 on a separate sheet, however, but form part of signa- 
 ture U, eight leaves, pages 289 to 304. O f this signa- 
 ture pages 289 to 294 comprise the last three leaves 
 of " The Passing of Arthur " ; pages 295 and 296 are 
 blank ; pages 297 to 300 contain the verses " To the 
 Queen"; page 301 is imprint ; and pages 302 to 304 
 are blank. 
 
 64 
 
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
 WORKS, li-]2-Ti— Continued 
 
 Four poems from Poems Chiefly Lyrical, published 
 in 1830, and six pieces from the volume of Poems 
 published in 1833, are for the first time reprinted, 
 with the poet's authority in this edition. The titles 
 of these are indicated in the comment on these two 
 volumes. 
 
 Notes : The poem " A Welcome to Her Royal Highness Marie 
 Alexandrovna, Duchess of Edinburgh," first appeared in The Times 
 on the morning of the royal marriage, March 7, 1874. It was 
 printed privately as an octavo pamphlet of eight pages. There 
 is also another issue in quarto form, as described by Shepherd. Both 
 of these are very rare. The poem was first published in book form 
 in VoL IV of the Cabinet edition of the Works, 1874. 
 
 This Cabinet edition of Works, published in twelve volumes in 
 1874 includes three other poems first printed in book form : 
 England and America in 1782. 
 
 This had appeared in the New York Ledger in 1872. 
 In the Garden of Swainston. 
 The Voice and the Peak. 
 
 The poem " The Window," which had already appeared in a pri- 
 vately printed edition, as well as in a published edition, set to music, 
 is first included in this edition of the Works. 
 
 QUEEN MARY. London, 1875. i6mo, 
 original cloth, uncut. 
 
 Collation : Advertisement, half-title, title, and Dramatis 
 Personae, pp. i-viii; text, pp. 1-278; advertisements, 
 5 leaves. 
 
 Tennyson planned a series of three plays dealing 
 with three great periods in English history. He 
 called them his " historical trilogy." This, the last of 
 the three, was the first written, in the same way as 
 the last of the " Idylls of the King " was the first 
 
 65 
 
WORKS OF 
 
 QUEEN MARY, i8js— Continued 
 
 written. The others were "Harold," published in 
 1877, and " Becket," privately printed in 1879, but not 
 published until 1884. 
 
 "Queen Mary" was acted at the Lyceum Theatre 
 in London in 1876, with Irving as Philip and Miss 
 Kate Bateman as Queen Mary. Tennyson wrote 
 some twenty lines additional for the play as acted, 
 but, according to the Memoir, these were never printed. 
 
 An autograph letter, signed, of the author is in- 
 serted in this copy. 
 
 POEMS. [London, Printed for R. Herne 
 Shepherd, 1875.] i6mo, sewed, uncut. 
 
 Collation : Half-title and text, pp. 1-32. 
 
 This is another of Shepherd's pirated collections. 
 It was issued to accompany his fifth pirated edition 
 of The Lover's Tale, but, as with the one described on 
 pages 58 to 60 this second part Poems, was intended 
 also to be sold separately. 
 
 This collection differs from the preceding ones, 
 three poems being struck out and five new ones in- 
 serted, making eighteen in all. These eighteen pieces 
 fill thirty-two pages, whereas the sixteen pieces of 
 the earlier editions filled only sixteen pages. The 
 contents now are : 
 
 No More. 
 
 Anacreonatics. 
 
 A Fragment. 
 
 Sonnet. "Check every outfiash, every ruder 
 sally." 
 
 66 
 
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
 POEMS, iSys—Caniinueti 
 
 Sonnet. " There are three things which fill my 
 
 heart with sighs." 
 Sonnet. " Me my own Fate to lasting sorrow 
 
 doometh." 
 The New Timon, and the Poets. 
 After-Thought.* 
 Reprinted from Punch, March 7, 1846. It had, 
 however, been included in the Works of 1872 with 
 the title " Literary Squabbles." 
 On a Spiteful Letter.* 
 Reprinted from Once a Week, January 4, 1868. 
 Already included in Works, 1872. 
 
 Stanzas. "What time I wasted useful hours." 
 Sonnet. "Farewell, Macready, since to-night 
 
 we part." 
 Britons, Guard Your Own. 
 The Third of February, 1852.* 
 Reprinted from The Examiner, February 7, 1852. 
 Already printed in Works, 1872. 
 Hands all Round. 
 " God Bless our Prince and Bride." 
 Ode. " Uplift a thousand voices full and 
 sweet." * 
 Reprinted from Frasers Magazine, June, 1862. It 
 had appeared separately, as already described, as well 
 as in the Works of 1872. 
 
 Translations of Homer.* 
 Reprinted from The Cornhill Magazine, December, 
 1863. Already printed in Works, 1872. 
 
 Her Children rise up and call her Blessed. 
 The five new pieces are marked by a *- 
 67 
 
WORKS OF 
 
 POEMS, 1%^^— Continued 
 
 Note : The poem " To the Rev. W. H. Brookfield" was first 
 printed in the Memoir of Brookfield prefixed to a collection of his 
 sermons published in 1875. It was collected in the volume Ballads 
 and Other Poems in 1880. 
 
 THE NEWTIMON AND THE POETS. 
 
 Privately Printed, 1876. i6mo, sewed, uncut. 
 Collation : Title and text, pp. 1-32. 
 
 This is a reprint of the collection described above, 
 which was printed by Shepherd to accompany his 
 fifth and sixth editions of " The Lover's Tale." The 
 only difference is that this has a title-page, as follows: 
 
 The New Timon and / The Poets : / By / Alfred Tennyson, 
 D.C.L. / With other omitted / Poems. / Privately Printed, / 
 1876. 
 
 In this edition page 14 is misprinted 4. 
 
 HAROLD, A DRAMA. London, 1877. 
 i6mo, original cloth, uncut. 
 
 Collation : Half-title, title, dedication, prefatory sonnet 
 and Dramatis Personas, pp. i-ix ; text, pp. 1-161 ; im- 
 print, p. 162 ; advertisements of Tennyson's Works, 2 
 leaves, list of King's publications, pp. 1-30 ; imprint, 
 P-3I- 
 Published late in 1876, though dated 1877 on the 
 title-page. The play is preceded by a Sonnet " Show- 
 day at Battle Abbey, 1876." 
 
 Note : To Prof. Jebb's Greek Literature Primer, published in 
 1877, Tennyson contributed an experiment in Sapphic meter, four 
 lines, beginning : 
 
 " Faded every violet, all the roses." 
 
 These lines were never included by Tennyson in any edition of his 
 works, but are reprinted in the Memoir. 
 
 68 
 
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
 BECKET, A TRAGEDY. London, 1879. 
 1 2 mo, binder's cloth, uncut. 
 
 Collation : Half-title, title and text, pp. 1-123. 
 
 This was the second of Tennyson's three plays 
 treating of important periods of English history, and 
 
 BECKET 
 
 A TRAGEDY 
 LONDON:. 1879 
 
 which he called his " historical trilogy." In this one 
 he aimed to portray the struggle between the Crown 
 and the Church. 
 
 This first privately printed edition is the rarest of 
 all the author's privately printed plays. Only some 
 
 69 
 
WORKS OF 
 
 BECKET, A TRAGEDY, x'i^f)— Continued 
 
 three copies, outside of the copyright copies, are 
 known to exist. The reproduction of the types of 
 the title-page herewith is the exact size of original 
 although the title leaf itself measures 7>^xS inches. 
 
 William AUingham records in his diary, under date 
 of August 5, 1880, that Tennyson said to him : 
 
 " I gave Irving my ' Thomas a Becket"; he said it was mag- 
 nificent, but it would cost him £,yyoQ to mount it : he couldn't 
 afford the risk. If well put on the stage it would act for a time, 
 and it would bring me credit ( he said ), but it wouldn't pay. 
 He said, ' If you give me something short I'll do it.' So I wrote 
 him a play in two acts ' The Cup.' " 
 
 While the play was written as early as 1879 ^"^ 
 printed in that year, it was not published until 1884. 
 A comparison of the text of this private issue with 
 that of the published edition of 1884 shows al arge 
 number of variations. The play, as originally writ- 
 ten was, apparently, too long for production on the 
 stage, and when the acting edition was printed for 
 Irving's consideration it was considerably condensed. 
 When finally published the passages which had been 
 cut out were restored. The 1884 edition, therefore, 
 contains more matter than this 1879 edition. While 
 the principal differences between the two texts are 
 brought about by this condensation there are other 
 differences which seem to point to an effort at revi- 
 sion and improvement on the part of the author. 
 These changes or revisions are more numerous in the 
 first- part of the play than in the later scenes. The 
 private edition is without dedication. 
 
 Some of the longer passages which occur in the 
 
 70 
 
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
 BECKET, A TRAGEDY. lS7()—CottHnued 
 
 1884 edition but not in that of the 1879 are the follow- 
 ing. The page numbers refer to the 1884 edition : 
 
 Page 18. Herbert's speech beginning " I left him with peace on 
 his face." 
 
 Page 93. The latter part of Henry's speech beginning "I am 
 not worthy of her." 
 
 Pages 113-114. All of Walter Map's speech except the first 
 two lines and the last three lines. This speech in the 1879 
 edition reads : 
 
 " Nay, my lord, take heart ; for tho' you suspended your- 
 self, the Pope let you down again. I hate a split between 
 old friendships as I hate the gap in the face of a monk ; it 
 will swallow anything. Farewell." 
 
 Page 115. All but the first two lines of Becket's speech. 
 
 Pages 132-138. All of Act HI, scene HI, from the beginning to 
 and including the first line at top of p. 139. "Re-enter Henry 
 and Becket" reads "Enter Henry and Becket." 
 
 Pages 143-146. All of the dialogue between Becket and Wal- 
 ter Map, which finishes Act HI. 
 
 Page 162. Lines 3 to 10 of Eleanor's speech. Line 3 in the 
 1 879 edition reads: 
 " My gracious lord, you have spoilt the farce." 
 
 Page 163-165. All of the dialogue between Eleanor and Fitz- 
 urse which ends Scene H, Act IV. 
 
 Page 195. All but the first two lines of Becket's speech. 
 
 These are the longer passages. There are, how- 
 ever, many other minor elisions varying in length 
 from a word or two to several lines. 
 
 Only two full lines are found in the edition of 
 1879 and not in that of 1884. These are both in 
 Act I, Scene III. They are enclosed in brackets 
 below. The context occurs at the top of page 55 of 
 the 1884 edition. 
 
 71 
 
WORKS OF 
 
 BECKET, A TRAGEDY, Y'i'jt^—ConHnued 
 
 "Another Templar (kneelittg). Father, I am the 
 
 youngest of the Templars, 
 [Youngest and oldest we entreat thee now ;] 
 Look on me as I were thy bodily son. 
 For, like a son, I lift my hands to thee." 
 
 " Philip. Wilt thou hold out forever, Thomas 
 
 Becket ? 
 [Are thine ears seal'd to those that call on thee ?] 
 Dost thou not hear ? " 
 
 The following are some of the most important 
 minor changes of text. The italics, of course, are 
 ours: 
 
 1879. But that I fear the Queen would snatch her life. 
 
 1884. But that I fear the Queen would have her life. Page 4 
 
 1 879. How dost thou know / have not wedded her ? 
 
 1884. How dost thou know / am not wedded to her ? Page 4 
 
 1879. Yet would I that thou wert, for I should find 
 
 1884. I would to Godxhovi wert, for I should find Page 5 
 
 1879. And this plebeian now to be Archbishop ! 
 
 1884. And this plebeian like to be Archbishop ! Page 21 
 
 1879. The rift that splits between me and the King. 
 
 1884. The rift that r««j between me and the King. Page 29 
 
 1879. I do think the King 
 
 Did urge thy election, and why not ? 
 
 1884. I do think the King 
 
 Was potent in the election, and why not ? Page 29 
 
 1879. I cast myself asunder from the King. 
 
 1884. I gash myself asunder from the King. Page 30 
 
 1879. 'Tis now you are as winter to all women, 
 
 1884. 'Tis now you are midwinter to all women. Page 41 
 
 1879. Take heed, lest he should crush thee utterly. 
 
 1884. Take heed, lest he t^ifj/rf^y thee utterly. Page 45 
 
 1879. A mete place for the monies of the Church, 
 
 That be the rightful patrimony of the poor ? 
 
 72 
 
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
 BECKET, A TRAGEDY, i&yg—Coniinued 
 
 1884. A_fii place for the monies of the Church, 
 
 That be the patrimony of the poor ? Page 49 
 
 1879. I have one master — he— my lord the King. 
 
 1884. Are ye my masters, or my lord the King ? Page 50 
 
 1879. When every baron dip't his blade in blood ; 
 
 1884. When every haxon ground his blade in blood ; Page 58 
 
 1879. False to himself, but doubly false to me ! 
 
 1884. False to himself, but tenfold false to me ! Page 61 
 
 1879. A /oya/ traitress to thy royal fame 
 
 1884. A faithful traitress to thy royal fame Page 91 
 
 1879. — and something 
 
 Which I had yet to say will so much vex thee. 
 
 1884, — and something 
 
 / had to say — / love thee none the less — 
 Which -will so vex thee. Page 95 
 
 1879, Map rails at Rome. I all but hold with Map. 
 
 1884. Map Jf^:f at Rome. I all but hold with Map. Page 114 
 
 1879. Small peace was mine in my novitiate, father. 
 
 1884. Scant peace was mine in my novitiate, father. Page 179 
 
 All the variations, probably several hundred, are 
 noted in pencil in the copy of the 1884 edition in this 
 set. 
 
 " Becket" was finally put upon the stage by Irving 
 in 1891 and proved a success. 
 
 THE FALCON, London, Printed for the 
 Author, 1879. i2mo, original blank buff 
 paper cover, uncut. 
 
 Collation : Half-title, title. Dramatis Personas and text, 
 pp. 1-34, followed by a blank leaf. 
 
 This play was acted by the Kendals for sixty-seven 
 nights in December, 1879, and in the early part of 
 
 73 
 
WORKS OF 
 
 THE FALCON, i8yg— Continued 
 
 1880. It was not published until 1884. This is one 
 of a very small private issue printed for copyright, 
 or for the use of the actors. Shepherd surmised that 
 there might have been a private edition for this pur- 
 
 THE FALCON 
 
 London :. Paurrao roa tub authoh : 1879. 
 
 pose, but he says that he never saw or heard of a 
 copy. 
 
 In this private issue the names of the actors are not 
 inserted in the Dramatis Personae. 
 
 A careful reading of this private edition with the 
 
 74 
 
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
 THE FALCON, \%^(j— Continued 
 
 published edition of 1884 discovers only a single var- 
 iation in the text and that of no importance. 
 
 "I thank thee, good Filippo" in the 1879 edition 
 is " I thank you, good Filippo " in the 1884 volume 
 (page 124). 
 
 " Pinned " in 1879 is " Pinn'd " in 1884, but " dash'd 
 in 1879 is " dashed " in 1884. These and twelve 
 changes in punctuation comprise all the variations in 
 the text of the two books. Four commas were struck 
 out and one inserted ; one period was changed to a 
 comma and one comma was changed to a period ; an 
 exclamation was substituted for a period, etc. 
 
 All these variations are noted in pencil in the copy 
 of the 1884 edition in this set. 
 
 THE LOVER'S TALE. London, 1879. 
 
 i6mo, cloth, uncut. 
 
 Collation : Half-title, title, preface and text, pp. 1-95 ; 
 advertisements, 2 leaves. 
 
 We have already noted the editions of The Lover's 
 Tale which appeared in 1833 and in 1869, as well 
 as the pirated edition of 1870. This is the first 
 authorized, published edition. As first printed in 
 1833 the poem contained two parts only. In 1869 a 
 new third part was added. One section of this third 
 part was included in the " Holy Grail " volume un- 
 der the title of " The Golden Supper." In this edi- 
 tion of 1879 the first section of the third part as 
 printed in 1869 forms Part III of the poem, while 
 the portion printed as " The Golden Supper " forms 
 a Part IV. Between these two in the edition of 
 
 75 
 
WORKS OF 
 
 THE LOVER'S TALE, \%nq— Continued 
 
 1869 were seventeen lines, which have never yet been 
 reprinted. 
 
 TENNYSONIANA. Second Edition. Lon- 
 don, 1879. i2mo, boards, uncut. 
 
 Collation : Half-title, title, dedication and Contents, 
 pp. i-viii ; text and Index, pp. 1-208. 
 
 This second edition of Tennysoniana, by R. Heme 
 Shepherd, includes, on page 52, an early sonnet by 
 Tennyson, 
 
 " Therefore your halls, your ancient colleges," 
 
 which had been written in 1830. Shepherd found it 
 in manuscript on the fly-leaf of the copy of Poems of 
 1833 in the Dyce collection at South Kensington. 
 It was never included in any authorized edition of 
 the poet's works, but is reproduced in the Memoir. 
 This copy is one of a small issue on large paper. 
 
 BALLADS AND OTHER POEMS. Lon- 
 don, 1880. i6mo, cloth, uncut. 
 
 Collation : Title, dedicatory verses and Contents, pp. 
 i-vi; text, pp. 1-184; advertisements, 2 leaves. 
 
 During 1877, 1878, 1879 and 1880, Tennyson con- 
 tributed several of his best poems to the Nineteenth 
 Century, which was edited by his friend, James 
 Knowles, who was architect of Aldsworth. To No. 
 I of the magazine, published March, 1877, he con- 
 tributed a " Prefatory Sonnet." The following were 
 contributed to later numbers ; all of these were first 
 collected in this " Ballads " volume : 
 
 76 
 
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
 BALLADS AND OTHER POEMS, liio—ConHnued 
 
 Montenegro. May, 1877. 
 
 To Victor Hugo. June, 1877. 
 
 Achilles over the Trench. August, 1877. 
 
 The Revenge : A Ballad of the Fleet. March, 
 
 1878. 
 The Defence of Lucknow, with Dedication to 
 
 the Princess Alice. April, 1879. 
 De Profundis. May, 1880. 
 
 COLLECTED SONNETS OLD AND 
 
 NEW. By Charles Tennyson Turner. 
 London, 1880. i6mo, cloth, uncut. 
 
 Collation : Half-title, title, dedication, prefatory poem, 
 etc., pp. i-xxii ; Introductory Essay and text, pp. 1-390. 
 
 To this collected edition of poems by his brother, 
 Charles Tennyson prefixed a poem, " Midnight, June 
 30, 1879," written shortly after his elder brother's 
 death. It was reprinted with " Tiresias " in 1885. 
 
 Note : The two "Child Songs," "The City Child," and "Minnie 
 and Winnie," published in St. Nicholas in February and March, 1880, 
 are said to have been printed in England as an octavo pamphlet 
 of eight pages. We know of no copy in this country, however. 
 The two pieces were included in the 1884 edition of Works. 
 
 THE CUP. London, Printed for the 
 Author, i88i. i2mo, original blank buff 
 paper cover, uncut. 
 
 Collation : Half-title, title. Dramatis Personae and text, 
 pp. 1-48. 
 
 The third, so far as we know, of Tennyson's pri- 
 vately printed plays. 
 
 77 
 
WORKS OF 
 
 THE CUP, iSSl—Con/inued 
 
 From a letter by Sir Charles Newton, printed in 
 the Memoir, it is evident that " The Cup " was at 
 least planned as early as March, 1879, ^^^ from the 
 extract from AUingham's diary quoted on page 70, it 
 
 THE CUP 
 
 London: Pmhtbd po> tub Anmoiti 
 
 would seem as if the play was finished as early as 
 August S, 1880, although the author's son in the 
 Memoir, says that it was begun in November, 1879, 
 and finished " late in 1880." James Knowles wrote 
 on December 4, 1880, asking Tennyson to make an 
 
 78 
 
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
 THE CUP, ^^ix— Continued 
 
 appointment to read the play to Irving, Ellen Terry 
 and all the company who were to play it, on Christ- 
 mas Day. This appointment was kept, and accord- 
 ing to the Memoir a few alterations from the first 
 manuscript copy were found necessary for the stage 
 edition. "Three short speeches for Synorix were 
 added. Act I, Scene 3; and at the end of Act 
 II, the quarrel between Sinnatus and Synorix was 
 lengthened by two lines, and Camma was made 
 to interrogate Sinnatus as to what Synorix had 
 said, and three or four entrances were made less 
 abrupt." 
 
 There is evidently at least one mistake in this 
 statement. As Sinnatus was left dead at the end of 
 Act I, and as the dialogue between Sinnatus and Sy- 
 norix occurs in the early part of the third scene of 
 that act, all of the alterations noted were evidently 
 made in the third Scene of Act I. 
 
 Again, in the Memoir, under date of August, 1887, 
 we find this statement : 
 
 " Miss Mary Anderson was acting in ' The Winter's Tale ' in 
 London and came to visit us, and signed an agreement to pro- 
 duce ' The Cup.' My father wrote four new lines for her, to be 
 sung before the priestesses in the Temple : 
 
 Artemis, Artemis, hear us. O mother, hear 
 
 us and bless us ! 
 Artemis, thou that art life to the wind, 
 
 to the wave, to the glebe, to the fire, 
 Hear thy people who praise thee ! O help 
 
 us from all that oppress us. 
 Hear thy priestesses hymn thy glory ! 
 
 O yield them all their desire." 
 
 79 
 
WORKS OF 
 
 THE CUP, \%'il— Continued 
 
 Now these four lines are found in this first pri- 
 vately printed edition, though they are not in the 
 first published edition of 1884. Evidently, instead 
 of being new lines written for Mary Anderson, they 
 are old lines restored from the earlier version. 
 
 Six additional lines not in the 1884 edition are 
 found in the privately printed edition. Though not 
 mentioned in the Memoir they were probably restored 
 to the text at the same time. Both are found in the 
 current editions. These lines form a part of the 
 speech of Synorix in Act II, which begins " The love 
 I bear to thee." The portion included in brackets 
 below is not found in the 1884 edition (page 80). 
 " Let all be done to the fullest in the sight 
 Of all the Gods. 
 
 [Nay, rather than so clip 
 The flowery robe of Hymen, we would add 
 Some golden fringe of gorgeousness beyond 
 Old use, to make the day memorial, when 
 Synorix, first King, Camma, first Queen o' the Realm 
 Drew here the richest lot from fate, to live 
 And die together.] 
 
 This pain — what is it ? — again ? " 
 
 In this privately printed edition the play is headed 
 above Act I, "The Cup. A Tragedy." In the 
 1884 edition this heading is simply "The Cup." 
 There are a few other unimportant points of differ- 
 ence between the edition of 1879 ^'^'^ that of 1884. 
 The page numbers refer to the published edition. 
 
 " Ay, they crown him " becomes "Ay, there they 
 crown him " (page 65). 
 
 "She — close the Temple door," is changed to 
 80 
 
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
 THE CUP, liil— Continued 
 
 "Temple doors" (page 8i). This is perhaps a 
 misprint as the current editions read " door." Two 
 other misprints occur in the 1884 edition. " Mine " is 
 misprinted "|mind " in " Some friends of mine would 
 speak with me without," on page 28, and " Doomed " 
 is misprinted "Domed" in the line "Doomed cities, 
 hear," on page 71. 
 
 The other differences are only in punctuation. 
 Six commas have been added and one struck out; 
 one hyphen has been added and one struck out ; two 
 periods have been changed to commas and two past 
 participles have been abbreviated by the use of the 
 apostrophe. One parenthesis and one period have 
 been added which v/ere probably left out of the 1879 
 edition through carelessness. 
 
 All these variations have been noted in pencil in 
 the copy of the 1884 edition in this set. 
 
 THE PROMISE OF MAY. London. 
 Printed for the Author, 1882. i2mo, 
 original light brown paper cover, uncut. 
 
 Collation : Half-title, title, Dramatis Personae and text, 
 pp. 1-74. 
 The last of the privately printed plays and, after 
 " Becket," the rarest. It was acted for a few weeks 
 in 1882, but was not regularly published until it was 
 included in the volume Locksley Hall Sixty Years 
 After in 1 887. 
 
 A comparison of the text of this privately printed 
 edition with that of the published edition of 1887 
 fails to discover any variations worthy of note. The 
 
 81 
 
WORKS OF 
 
 THE PROMISE OF MAY, liii— Continued 
 
 page numbers refer to Locksley Hall Sixty Years 
 After. 
 
 On page loo " letter " becomes "letters" in the 
 
 THE 
 
 PROMISE OF MAY 
 
 lONnOn: FKINTBD FOB THB AUTHOftt t89» 
 
 sentence " But where is this Mr. Edgar whom you 
 praised so in your first letter?" 
 
 On page 149 " 'uns " is changed to " ones " in the 
 sentence " Taake one o' the young 'uns fust." This 
 is, however, probably only the mistake of a careless 
 compositor or proof-reader. 
 
 Four commas were struck out and six were added ; 
 82 
 
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
 THE PROMISE OF MAY, lZ%2— Continued 
 
 one period is changed to a comma, and one period 
 and one exclamation-point are changed to marks of 
 interrogation ; " Overwhelmed " was printed with an 
 apostrophe " overwhelm'd " and a hyphen was in- 
 serted in " half-return'd." 
 
 All these variations are noted in pencil in the copy 
 of Locksley Hall Sixty Years After in this set. 
 
 BECKET. London, 1884. i6mo, original 
 cloth, uncut. 
 
 Collation: Half-title, title, dedication, and Dramatis 
 Personae, pp. i-vii; text, pp. 1-213; blank, p. 214; 
 advertisements, i leaf. 
 
 The first published edition. The play had already 
 been privately printed in 1879. The principal vari- 
 ations between it and this first published edition 
 have been noted on pages 69 to 73. They are all in- 
 dicated in pencil in this copy. An acting edition, 
 much condensed, was printed in 1893. 
 
 THE CUP AND THE FALCON. Lon- 
 don, 1884. i6nio, original cloth, uncut. 
 
 Collation: Half-title and title, pp. i-iii; half-title. 
 
 Dramatis Personas and text, pp. 1-146; advertisements, 
 
 I leaf. 
 
 These two plays are here first published. They 
 
 had both been printed privately as already described, 
 
 "The Falcon" in 1879, and "The Cup" in 1881. 
 
 The variations between the privately printed editions 
 
 and this are noted in pencil in this copy. The names 
 
 of the actors of the various parts, when the plays were 
 
 first staged, are inserted in the Dramatis Personse. 
 
 83 
 
WORKS OF 
 
 THE PASSING OF ARTHUR. London, 
 1884. i6mo, original printed paper cover. 
 
 Collation : Half-title, title and text, pp. 1-24. 
 Separately printed for some unknown purpose and 
 very rare. It was first published in the second vol- 
 ume of Poems in 1842. A copy brought ;^I4 at 
 Sotheby's in 1899. The price " Ninepence " is printed 
 at the bottom of the front cover. 
 
 WORKS. London, 1884. Vol. H, only. 
 i2mo, cloth, uncii-t. 
 
 This set of Tennyson's Works, as published in 
 1884, contained seven volumes, but this second vol- 
 ume is, we believe, the only one containing any new 
 poems. On pages 278 and 279 are two " Child-Songs " : 
 " The City Child " and " Minnie and Winnie," which 
 had been written for the St. Nicholas Magazine, 
 where they were first published in 1880. It is said 
 the two poems were put in type in England at the 
 same time for copyright purposes. 
 
 On page 302 of this volume is the first authorized 
 reprint of the experiment in metre, " Hexameters 
 and Pentameters," which appeared in the Cornhill 
 Magazine in December, 1863. The other "experi- 
 ments," which appeared in the same number of the 
 magazine, had previously been collected in the 
 " Enoch Arden " volume in 1864, and in Works, 1872. 
 
 Note : In The Shakespeare Show-Book, published in 1884, 
 appeared a single stanza, four lines, beginning: 
 
 " Not he that breaks the dams, but he." 
 
 The lines were never reprinted in any authorized edition but are 
 found in the Memoir as part of an early unpublished poem, " The 
 Statesman." 
 
 84 
 
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
 TIRESIAS AND OTHER POEMS. Lon- 
 don, 1885. i6mo, original cloth, uncut. 
 
 Collation: Half-title, title, dedication and Contents, 
 pp. i-viii ; text, pp. 1-204, the last page unnumbered. 
 
 The following poems, first collected in this volume, 
 had already appeared, generally in periodicals, as in- 
 dicated : 
 
 Hands all Round. 
 First appeared in The Examiner, February 7, 1852. 
 The text is here considerably altered. It was first 
 collected in book form by R. H. Shepherd in his 
 pirated volume published in 1870. 
 Helen's Tower. 
 Privately printed by Lord Dufferin in 1861, as de- 
 scribed ante. 
 
 Prefatory Poem to My Brother's Sonnets. 
 Printed under the title " Midnight, June 30, 1879," 
 in Collected Sonnets Old and New, by Charles Tenny- 
 son Turner, in 1880. 
 Despair. 
 First appeared in The Nineteenth Century, Novem- 
 ber, 188 1. 
 
 The Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava. 
 Appeared in Macmillan's Magazine, March, 1882. 
 
 To Virgil. 
 Appeared in The Nineteenth Century, November, 
 1882. 
 
 " Frater Ave atque Vale." 
 Appeared in The Nineteenth Century, March, 1883. 
 
 Early Spring. 
 Appeared in The Youth's Companion, December 
 13, 1883. 
 
 85 
 
WORKS OF 
 
 TIRESIAS AND OTHER POEMS, i^,— Continued 
 
 Freedom. 
 
 Appeared in MacmillarCs Magazine, December, 
 1884, and in The New York Independent probably 
 simultaneously. 
 
 Epitaph on General Gordon. 
 
 Appeared in The Times, May 7, 1885. 
 
 " Balin and Balan," one of the new poems in the 
 volume, was actually a new " Idyll of the King," 
 though not so called in this first edition. It was, 
 however, incorporated with the other Idylls in 1888, 
 being inserted between " Geraint and Enid " and 
 " Merlin and Vivien." 
 
 Note: The poem " To H. R. H. Princess Beatrice," which 
 appeared in The Times of July 23, 1885, the day of the marriage of 
 the Princess to the Prince of Battenberg, was printed on a single 
 quarto sheet dated July, 1885. According to Shepherd, the copy 
 in the British Museum has this inscription in the author's hand- 
 writing : 
 
 " F, T. Palgrave, from A. Tennyson." 
 
 The poem was included in the " Tiresias " volume published later 
 in the same year. 
 
 To Ros Rosarum, a volume of selections from the poets, edited 
 by the Hon. Mrs. Boyle ("E. V. B."), Tennyson contributed the 
 verses beginning : 
 
 " The night with sudden odour reel'd." 
 
 Though never collected by the author in any authorized edition 
 they are found in the Memoir. 
 
 The poem "Opening of the Indian and Colonial Exhibition 
 by the Queen," was first printed for official purposes as a single 
 quarto sheet, four pages. It was first published in The Colonial and 
 Indian Exhibition Opening Ceremonial, May 4, 1886. It first 
 appeared in book form in Loeksley Hall Sixty Years After^ published 
 later in the same year. 
 
 86 
 
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
 LOCKSLEY HALL SIXTY YEARS 
 
 AFTER, Etc. London, i886. i6mo, 
 
 original cloth, uncut. 
 
 Collation : Half-title, title, dedication and Contents, 
 pp. i-vii ; half-title and text pp. i-2oi ; imprint, p. 202. 
 
 Besides the poem, "Opening of the Indian and 
 Colonial Exhibition by the Queen," which appeared 
 in various newspapers, only one of the poems in 
 this volume had appeared in any periodical. " The 
 Fleet" was first printed in The Times of April 23, 
 
 1885. 
 
 The play, " The Promise of May," which had been 
 privately printed for the use of the actors in 1882, 
 is here first published. The few variations between 
 this edition and that of 1882 are noted in pencil in 
 this copy. 
 
 CARMEN S^CULARE. AN ODE. Lon- 
 don, Printed for Private Distribution, 
 1887. i2mo, original printed stiff paper 
 covers, gilt edges. 
 
 Collation: Half-title, title and text, pp. 1-15; p. 16 
 
 blank. 
 
 This was a "Jubilee Ode" written in honor of 
 Queen Victoria. It was published in Macmillans 
 Magazine for April, 1887, under the title "Carmen 
 Saeculare : An Ode in Honour of the Jubilee of 
 Queen Victoria." The magazine issue was appar- 
 ently an earlier text as there are several points of 
 difference. This separate reprint was unknown to 
 
 87 
 
WORKS OF 
 
 CARMEN S^CULARE. AN ODE, li%^—ConHnued 
 
 Shepherd. Mr. Wise states that only tv; enty copies 
 were printed. 
 
 It includes one evident misprint : 
 
 " Make it really gorgeous," 
 
 CARMEN SiECULARE 
 
 AN ODE 
 
 ALFRED TENNYSON, D.C.L. 
 
 Poet Laurtatt 
 
 usmxm 
 PRINTED FOR PRIVATE WSTRIBXITION 
 
 evidently should be, as it is in Macmillans Magazine 
 and the current editions, 
 
 "Make it regally gorgeous." 
 When included in the " Demeter " volume in 1889 
 the title of the poem was again altered to "On the 
 Jubilee of Queen Victoria." 
 
 88 
 
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
 THE THROSTLE. London, 1889. i6mo, 
 red levant morocco, by Riviere. 
 
 Collation : Title, imprint and text, pp. 1-3 ; page 4 
 blank. 
 
 "The Throstle "was published in The New York 
 World in this country, and in The New Review in 
 
 THE THROSTLE 
 
 ALFRED 
 LOKD TEMNVSON 
 
 lonlroii 
 
 MACMILLAN AND CO. 
 
 1889 
 
 England, in October, 1889, This is one of a few 
 copies printed for the purpose of securing copyright 
 in England and perhaps for distribution among a few 
 friends. The poem was collected in the " Demeter " 
 volume in the same year. 
 
 89 
 
WORKS OF 
 
 DEMETER AND OTHER POEMS. 
 London, 1889. i6nio, cloth, uncut. 
 
 Collation : Half-title, title and Contents, pp. i-vi ; text, 
 pp. I-I7S. 
 
 Besides the three poems named above, " On the 
 Jubilee of Queen Victoria," " The Throstle," and 
 " In Memoriam William George Ward," this volume 
 contains only a single poem which had appeared in 
 periodical form previously. This is the poem " Vast- 
 . ness," which was printed in Macmillatis Magazine 
 for November, 1885. 
 
 Note: Six lines '' In Memoriam William George Ward," appeared 
 in The Athenaum of May li, 1889, and in William George Ward 
 and the Oxford Movement, published later in the same year. It next 
 appeared in the " Demeter " volume. 
 
 "CROSSING THE BAR" AND A FEW 
 
 OTHER TRANSLATIONS. By H. 
 
 M. B. Not Published, 1890. Small 4to, 
 
 original printed paper cover, uncut. 
 
 Collation ; Title, p. i ; half-title, with verses, Contents, 
 Preface and text, pp. 1-67 ; imprint, p. 68. 
 
 A series of translations of Tennyson's poem, 
 " Crossing the Bar," with others of Wordsworth, 
 into Latin and Greek. Privately printed and rare. 
 This copy has a printed slip inserted : " With the 
 Translator's Compliments." 
 
 Note : Four lines, beginning : 
 
 " We lost you for how long a time," 
 were written to accompany Pearl, an English Poem of the 14th 
 Century," published in 1891. They were never reprinted by their 
 author, but are in the Memoir. 
 
 90 
 
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
 THE FORESTERS, ROBIN HOOD 
 AND MAID MARIAN. London, 1892. 
 i6mo, original cloth, uncut. 
 
 Collation : Half-title, title, Dramatis Personae and half- 
 title, pp. i-vii; text, pp. 1-155. 
 
 One of the songs, " To Sleep," in the poem, " The 
 Foresters," had appeared in The New Review for 
 March, 1891. Another, " The National Song," is an 
 adaptation of one which had appeared in Poems 
 Chiefly Lyrical, in 1830. The choruses were rewritten. 
 
 THE SILENT VOICES. London, 1892. 
 
 i6mo, polished calf, by Riviere. 
 
 Collation : Title, and text, p. 1-4, pages 2 and 4 both 
 blank. 
 
 This poem was included in the " Death of CEnone " 
 volume, which was passing through the press at the 
 time of Lord Tennyson's death, in October, 1892. 
 A few copies of "The Silent Voices," which was to 
 be sung at the funeral, were printed separately for 
 the purpose of securing copyright. It was also 
 printed in the two programmes next described, both 
 of these antedating the publication in book form. 
 
 ORDER OF SERVICE at Lord Tenny- 
 son's Funeral, October 12, 1892. [Also] 
 PROGRAMME of the Memorial Ser- 
 vices Held at Westminster Abbey, Sun- 
 day, October 16, 1892. 
 
 Each of these programmes contains the poem 
 " The Silent Voices." 
 
 91 
 
WORKS OF 
 
 THE DEATH OF (ENONE, AKBAR'S 
 DREAM AND OTHER POEMS. Lon- 
 don, 1892. i6mo, cloth, uncut. 
 
 Collation; Half-title, title, and Contents, pp. i-vi; 
 text, pp. i-m. 
 
 The patriotic poem, " The War," which had ap- 
 
 THE SILENT VOICES 
 
 ALI-'KED 
 LORD TKNNYSON 
 
 lonton 
 
 If ACMILLAN AND CO 
 
 AND MKW VORK 
 189a 
 
 peared in TAe Times of May 9, 1859, ^t a time when 
 war seemed imminent between England and France, 
 is here first reprinted with the author's authorization 
 under the altered title, " Riflemen, Form ! " Shepherd 
 had included it in his pirated volume of 1870. Only 
 
 92 
 
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
 THE DEATH OF CENONE. l?i^2— Continued 
 
 one Other piece in the volume, besides " The Silent 
 Voices," described before, had previously appeared. 
 "The Death of the Duke of Clarence and Avon- 
 dale," appeared in the Nineteenth Century for Febru- 
 ary, 1892. There was also a large-paper edition, five 
 hundred copies, which contained five portraits of 
 Tennyson not in the ordinary edition. 
 
 POEMS BY TWO BROTHERS. Lon- 
 don, 1893. Royal 8vo, cloth, uncut. 
 
 Collation: Statement of number printed, half-title, 
 title. Preface, etc.. pp. i-xix; text, pp. 1-251 ; six leaves 
 of facsimiles. 
 
 This is one of three hundred copies printed on 
 large paper, and contains ten pages of facsimiles not 
 in the regular edition. The major part of the book 
 is a reprint of the volume printed in 1827, the first of 
 our list. Included, however, are four poems, printed 
 for the first time from the original manuscript : 
 
 " Come hither, canst thou tell me if this skull." 
 The Dying Man to his Friend. 
 " Unhappy Man, why wander there." 
 Written During the Convulsions in Spain. 
 
 ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON. A Me- 
 moir. By His Son. London, 1897. 2 vols. 
 Royal 8vo, cloth, uncut. 
 
 These volumes contain many poems, prose pas- 
 sages, and letters, here first printed. 
 
 93 
 
WORKS OF 
 
 RIFLE-CLUBS. Written in 1859. Now 
 FOR THE First Time Printed. New York, 
 1899. 4to, parchment, uncut. 
 
 Collation: Half-title, statement of number printed, 
 title, Note ; half-title and text, pp. i-xix. With four 
 leaves of facsimiles. 
 
 The copy is No. 3 of seventeen copies only printed 
 at the Marion Press from the original manuscript. 
 Of these seventeen, two went for copyright. The 
 poem is an earlier version of " The War," which ap- 
 peared in The London Times of May 9, 1859. The 
 manuscript from which this is printed was sent to 
 Mr. Coventry Patmore. It contains this note : 
 
 " Very wild, but I think too savage ! written in about two 
 minutes ! The authorship a most deep secret ! mind, Mr. P. ! " 
 
 TENNYSONIANA 
 
 The most interesting item of Tennysoniana in- 
 cluded in the set is a little book with the title: 
 
 Epilogue / to / Shakespeare's Comedy / of / " Much Ado 
 About Nothing : " / Performed Friday, 19th March, 1830, / And 
 printed at the request of the Performers. / Cambridge, / Printed 
 by James Hodson, Trinity-Street, / 1830. 
 
 The little book is made up of eight pages, the last 
 blank. A " Cast of the Characters " is on the back 
 of 'the titles. Its connection with Tennyson is best 
 explained by the following extract from the Memoir, 
 Vol. I, p. 48 : 
 
 " The brothers Charles and Alfred would humorously des- 
 cribe how 'Much Ado About Nothing' was played by their 
 
 94 
 
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
 TENNYSONIANA— C<;wft«»^flr 
 
 friends in March, 1 830. Kemble as Dogberry, Hallam as Verges. 
 Milnes as Beatrice. When Beatrice sat down, her weight was 
 such that she crashed through the couch, and sank on the floor, 
 nothing to be seen but a heap of petticoats, much to the discom- 
 fiture of the players and the immeasurable laughter of the spec- 
 tators. The incident used to remind my father by contrast of 
 Kemble's observation to someone who was playing the part of 
 Falstaff, ' Pooh, you should see my sister : she does Falstaff bet- 
 ter than any man living,' My father, I may add, was famous in 
 some parts of Shakespeare, especially in Malvolio." 
 
 The following is a short list of the other Tenny- 
 soniana included in the set : 
 
 Anti-Maud. By a Poet of the People. Second Edition, 
 enlarged. London, 1856. 
 
 Tennyson's " Maud " Vindicated. By R. J. Mann. Lon- 
 don, n. d. 
 
 An Index to In Memoriam. London, 1862. 
 
 Alfred Tennyson ; A Lecture. By Henry Edward Watts. 
 Melbourne, 1864. 
 
 A Study of the Works of Alfred Tennyson. By Edward 
 Campbell Tainsh. London, 1868. 
 
 Studies in the Idylls. By Henry Elsdale. London, 1878. 
 
 Lecture on Tennyson. By Edith Herand. London, 1878. 
 
 A Key to Tennyson's " In Memoriam." By Alfred Gatty. 
 Sheffield, 1879. 
 
 Atheism and Suicide. A Reply to Alfred Tennyson. By 
 G. W. Foote. [London, 1881.] 
 
 Tennyson. A Lecture by T. W. Chignell. Exeter, 1881. 
 
 Mr. Tennyson's " Despair." A Lecture by Thomas W^ker. 
 London, 1882. 
 
 The Earlier and Less-known Poems of Tennyson. An Ad- 
 dress by C. E. Mathews. London, 1883. 
 
 Tennyson's In Memoriam. A Study. By John F. Genung. 
 London, 1884. 
 
 9S 
 
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 
 
 TENNYSONIAN A— Continued 
 
 A Companion to In Memoriam. By Elizabeth Rachel Chap- 
 man. London, 1888. 
 
 Tennyson's "Queen Mary." A Criticism. ByG. M. Brody. 
 Edinburgh, n. d. 
 
 Vox Clamantis ! The Poet Laureate, By Eric Mackay. 
 London, n. d. 
 
 The Poetry of Tennyson. By Henry van Dyke. London, 
 1890. 
 
 Lord Tennyson and the Bible. By George Lester. Lon- 
 don, [1891.] 
 
 Tennyson's Life and Poetry. By Eugene Parsons. [Chi- 
 cago, 1892.] 
 
 Tennyson and " In Memoriam." By Joseph Jacobs. Lon- 
 don, 1892. 
 
 A Sermon Preached in the Chapel of Trinity College. By 
 H. Montagu Butler. Cambridge, 1892. 
 
 New Studies in Tennyson. By Morton Luce. London, 
 [1893.] 
 
 Tennyson as a Thinker. By Henry S. Salt. London, 1893. 
 
 Bibliography of Tennyson. By R. H. Shepherd. Large 
 Paper. London, 1896.