the letters which had been written by himself. I must here express my gratitude to the present Lord Tennyson, not only for his generosity in placing at my disposal those which remain, as well as extracts already published in the Memoir of his father, but also for his very kind assistance in the correction of proofs. To my uncle, Mr. Inglis Palgrave, and to the Dean of Salisbury, I am much indebted for their respective recollections of my father's childhood and college days; while among those who have given free permission for the publication of letters, either to or from my father, I would particularly thank Mr. Stopford Brooke, Mrs. Matthew Arnold, Miss Gladstone, Lady F. Cavendish, the trustees of the late Professor Jowett, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Mr. W. M. Rossetti, the Duke of Argyll, Professor Ruskin, Mr. Eastlake-Smith, Mr. W. E. H. Lecky, Father Neville, and Sir Ludovic Grant. My thanks are also due to Messrs. Macmillan & Co. for their courtesy in allowing some of my father's poems to be published in these pages.

In this short narrative I have tried to show my father both as a man of true poetical feeling, possessed of the purest taste in art and literature, and also as one who was loved by an almost infinite number of friends, and whose vast sympathy endeared him to them-old and new alike. But I have failed to reveal in any adequate degree that intense appreciation of all that is good and

beautiful, that tenderness and chivalry, that humblemindedness which never allowed him to recognise his own singularly varied gifts, that perfect truthfulness, and above all that simplicity and transparency of nature which made him incapable of inconsistency -of ever saying anything that was not strictly true to his innermost thoughts or feelings :

And the work must not only be true,

But intense with the passion of truth,

The hatred of coldness and lie,
To the nobler nature must cry,
That shall merit eternal youth.

G. F. P.

February 1899.