The Bibliography of Tennyson

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In Memoriam: Mr. Richard Herne Shepherd

IN MEMORIAM.

Mr. RICHARD HERNE SHEPHERD.

Ten years ago few figures were better known to the London bookseller than that of the eccentric littérateur who passed away on July 15, 1895. Four or five years ago, however, declining health necessitated his retirement from active life, and in a retreat at Camberwell his last days were spent in compiling for Notes and Queries a bibliography of Coleridge, and in preparing for the press a bibliography of Tennyson. He was a native and a resident of Chelsea, the son of Samuel Shepherd, F.S.A., and the grandson of a former minister of Ranelagh Chapel, the Rev. Richard Herne Shepherd.

To all collectors of the first editions of the works of Tennyson, Thackeray, Dickens, Ruskin, Charles Lamb, Carlyle, and Swinburne the name of Richard Herne Shepherd is a household word. He may be said to have invented that class of bibliography which modern book collectors most esteem. A considerable amount of excellent work was also done anonymously by Shepherd for John Camden Hotten, William Pickering, George Redway, and other publishers. He was, perhaps, the last man who regarded a business letter as a literary composition, and his briefest note was turned out as if it were a contribution to the Athenæum. His zeal for literature as literature was such that every fragment of printed matter became precious in his eyes and worthy of preservation, and if the author of the fragment or the author's friends chanced to take other views—tant pis. A man who tries to subsist by literary work of the class which alone appealed to the sympathies of Mr. Shepherd has a desperate fight with circumstances, and sometimes a hit below the belt may occur on one side or the other. Those who at this distance of time can recall any disagreeable event connected with him who has left us must, however, be extremely few. Animosity could hardly continue with a man so fundamentally good-natured as Shepherd, and it is a fact that the last person against whom Mr. Shepherd brought an action, and lost it, subscribed to pay the plaintiff's costs,

His was a unique personality, and although he dropped out of London life some years ago, amusing stories are yet told of his eccentric appearance, of his manners and customs. As a literary workman he was conscientious to an extraordinary degree, and an hour's walk in order to verify a quotation or to cross the ts and dot the is on a proof-sheet was to him positive enjoyment. He succumbed to cancer at the age of fifty-three.

R.

The Bibliography of Tennyson

THE

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF TENNYSON.

Poems, by Two Brothers. "Haec nos novimus esse nihil."—Martial. London: Printed for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, Stationers'-hall-court; and J. J. Jackson, Louth. MDCCCXXVII.

Published in two sizes, 12mo., at 5s., and 8vo., at 7s. The Large-Paper copies, of which there were, of course, fewer printed, (though not always preferred by collectors) generally command the higher price in the market. Of late years the book has become increasingly scarce, and is much sought after; and it fetches a considerable sum in either form, especially in the original boards, with the paper label.

The two brothers were Charles and Alfred Tennyson, then at the Louth Grammar-School together. The Messrs. Jackson purchased the copyright of their joint volume for ten pounds, and retained the original manuscript, which, in later years, was exhibited as a curiosity. And an attempt was made, unsuccessfully, by the late Mr. B. M. Pickering, in the middle sixties (after the publishers had discovered and reported a small remainder stock of the original issue), to induce the proprietors of the copyright to dispose of it to him. The small bundle of copies left, in both sizes, was purchased by Mr. Pickering, and the book gradually rose in price, as the number of copies dwindled, and at last disappeared; but the negotiations for the purchase of the copyright fell through, owing to the influence of the Poet's family in the county, to the prestige of his own great fame, and to the fact that the transfer of copyright had taken place in his minority, when he was entirely unknown and still a school-boy and, in the eyes of the law, an infant. Whether any pecuniary compensation or indemnification was made to the Jacksons by the Poet or his friends, is uncertain. But Mr. Pickering held the original bargain to be morally if not legally valid, unless cancelled by subsequent redemption on the part of the authors by mutual consent with the original publishers; and, had he succeeded in effecting and completing the purchase, which he travelled down to Lincolnshire to negotiate, he would have published a new edition of the volume without any hesitation, The best (or perhaps the only) descriptions of "Poems by Two Brothers" are in a paper contributed by the Hon. Leicester Warren to the Fortnightly Review, in October, 1865; and in a paper "On the Early Poems of Alfred and Charles Tennyson," published in Notes and Queries early in 1866, and which afterwards formed substantially the two opening chapters of "Tennysoniana."

A diminutive volume of "Sonnets and Fugitive Pieces," by Charles Tennyson (the elder of the two brothers), was issued at Cambridge, with his name, in 1830, and will enable a careful student to distinguish his work to some extent, in the earlier anonymous volume, from that of his more famous younger brother. Charles Tennyson afterwards assumed the name of Turner on inheriting some property, entered the Church, and became Vicar of Grasby in Lincolnshire. With the exception of some original lines which appeared in The Tribute in 1837, he published no more verse apparently for thirty-four years. His next volume appeared in 1864; and during the last fifteen years of his life he published several small volumes—chiefly of sonnets, his favourite form of composition. After his death in 1879 his poetical writings were collected, prefaced by a short memoir written by his nephew, Mr. Hallam Tennyson, with some introductory memorial stanzas by the Poet Laureate.

The volume "Poems, by Two Brothers" was reprinted after the Poet's death in 1893, with the initials of the authors attached to each poem. It appears that four were by Frederick Tennyson.

1829.

Timbuctoo: A Poem (in blank verse) which obtained the Chancellor's Gold Medal at the Cambridge Commencement, by A. Tennyson, Trinity College. Printed in the Prolusiones Academicæ of 1829. Cantabrigiæ (Cambridge): Joannes Smith. 8vo., thin pamphlet. pp. 13.

This poem was reprinted several times, in smaller size, in succeeding years in the collection of "Cam- bridge Prize Poems." In all these successive reprints "ravish'd sense" is misprinted "lavish'd sense"; the correct reading is only to be found in the first edition, as it appeared in the Prolusiones. The poem was never reprinted by the author; but three or four scattered lines of it appear in the "Ode to Memory" (1830) and in "The Lover's Tale" (1833).

Arthur Hallam was one of the unsuccessful competitors for this prize. His poem, written in the terza rima of Dante, was privately printed, both as a separate pamphlet and in his "Remains in Verse and Prose" (1834).

Thackeray, then also at Trinity, ridiculed the choice of subject, and produced a short mock or burlesque "Timbuctoo," in his college jeu d'esprit, entitled "The Snob" (Cambridge, 1829).

The Athenæum journal (at that early period of a long and distinguished career edited by its two joint proprietors, John Sterling and Frederick Denison Maurice) had the courage and the foresight to sound a trumpet-note of praise, heralding the advent of a new poet, and prophesying, with no uncertain voice, the future greatness of the author of the successful poem.

In the previous year (1828), Frederick Tennyson, the eldest of the seven brothers, had gained the prize for a Greek poem on Egypt, printed in the collection of Greek and Latin Prize Poems. There is a sonnet by Frederick Tennyson in one of the volumes of Friendship's Offering containing a similar contribution from his younger and more famous brother; but he published (whatever he may have printed privately) no collection of English Poems until 1854, when the volume of "Days and Hours," bearing his name on the title, was issued by J. W. Parker and Son. He had, at that time, attained his forty-eighth year.

1830.

Poems, Chiefly Lyrical. By Alfred Tennyson. London: Effingham Wilson, 1830. (pp. 154, leaf of Errata, no Table of Contents.)

It had originally been intended to publish these poems conjointly with those of Arthur Hallam; but by the advice of Hallam's father the contributions of the latter were withdrawn, and issued, separately and anonymously, for private circulation only. I never saw but one copy of Arthur Hallam's collected Poems. Tennyson's maiden volume attracted considerable attention from the leading Reviews of the period; it was noticed at unusual length by the Westminster Review, and in Blackwood's Magazine by Christopher North,—whose criticism called forth an epigram from the young poet in his ensuing volume of 1832, 1833. It was also reviewed by Arthur Henry Hallam in the brief-lived Englishman's Magazine, published by Edward Moxon in 1831: of this interesting notice only a small portion is reprinted in Arthur Hallam's Remains.

Copies of "Poems, Chiefly Lyrical," in the original boards and in good condition, are now increasingly rare, and command a high price. Two exceptionally interesting copies have come under my observation. The first was an uncut copy bearing on the title-page the neat and minute autograph of Robert Southey. On a fly-leaf belonging to, or attached, to the volume, was written in the author's autograph the draught of an original unpublished sonnet on Cambridge, which has since seen the light in the second edition of "Tennysoniana," in Notes and Queries, and elsewhere. This copy was preserved in the Dyce Collection at South Kensington, The other copy, accompanied by the later volume of 1832-1833, and the privately-printed "Lover's Tale," was not an uncut or specially well-bound copy, but contained, like its companion volumes, autograph notes and corrections in the Poet's handwriting, made in the year 1835, on the visit to Cambridge recorded in "In Memoriam," when the poet was the guest of the owner of these volumes, the Rev. W. H. Thompson, afterwards Master of Trinity College, at the sale of whose Library in 1857 these three volumes were disposed of in separate lots, and brought extremely advanced prices. An ordinary copy, perfect in the original boards, or artistically bound from an uncut copy, is now worth from ten to fifteen pounds, according to condition

Many of the poems in this volume were rejected and omitted from subsequent editions of Tennyson's Minor Poems. Some of these, however, were restored or reinstated in the later collected editions of his Complete Works, Very few of the poems retained were materially, or otherwise than verbally, altered.

Mr. Thompson's copy contained, in addition, an autograph note of his own, giving some account of an eccentric fellow-collegian, Thomas Sunderland, from whom the poem entitled "A Character" was supposed to be drawn.

1830-1831.

The Gem, for 1831 (London), an illustrated Annual, contains three original unpublished poems by Alfred Tennyson, never included by the author in any of his subsequent volumes, viz., "No More," "Anacreontics," and "A Fragment," the last-named in blank verse, somewhat in the style of "Timbuctoo." These are reprinted in a small volume entitled "The Lover's Tale and other Poems, now first collected," of which an edition, limited to fifty copies, was issued for private circulation in 1875, with a monograph by the author of "Tennysoniana."

This little volume was suppressed at the Poet's instigation by a decree of the Court of Chancery and is now very difficult to find. It contained twelve pages of preliminary matter (with title, contents, indicating the sources of the minor poems, and "a Monograph on 'The Lover's Tale,' a Supplementary Chapter to 'Tennysoniana (of which the second edition had not then been published), and sixty-four pages of text, of which forty-eight were occupied by the principal poem, and sixteen by the minor poems, not accessible elsewhere, except in the publications to which they were originally contributed. Some of the copies were done up in blue and white boards, entirely uncut; others were bound in vellum or half roan, with edges uncut and tops gilt; others remained loose or stitched, in the original sheets. But a large proportion of the copies were confiscated; and probably not more than twenty or two dozen were put into actual circulation.

A previous attempt, in the same direction, was made in the later months of 1870, but without title, table of contents, or monograph, and it lacked completeness in regard to the collection of Minor Poems, while including some others afterwards acknowledged and restored. This also was suppressed, at the instigation of the late Mr. B. M. Pickering.

1831.

The Englishman's Magazine, for August, 1831 (Edward Moxon), contains an original unpublished Sonnet by Alfred Tennyson, commencing:

"Check every outflash, every ruder sally."

(After the premature collapse of The Englishman's Magazine this Sonnet was reprinted in Friendship's Offering for 1833 (an illustrated annual), but disfigured by the error of "move" for "wove" in the antipenultimate or twelfth line.)

1831-1832.

The Yorkshire Literary Annual for 1832 contains an original unpublished Sonnet by Alfred Tennyson, commencing:

"There are three things which fill my heart with sighs,"

and also a Sonnet by Edward Tennyson, one of the Poet's younger brothers: apparently the sole published specimen of his poetical work.

Friendship's Offering for 1832 contains an original unpublished Sonnet by Alfred Tennyson, commencing:

"Me my own Fate to lasting sorrow doometh:"

These three sonnets were not included in the volume of 1832-1833, nor in any of the later volumes, or collected editions of Tennyson. They are reprinted in the small brochure of sixty-four pages already alluded to, "The Lover's Tale and other Poems, now first collected," issued for private circulation in 1875.

1832.

Poems, by Alfred Tennyson, London: Edward Moxon, 1833 (published in the winter of 1832).

Both in quantity and quality this volume surpasses its predecessor of 1830, is of much rarer occurrence, especially in the original boards, and commands a still higher price. Many of the poems were omitted altogether in later editions and never restored or reinstated, and of those retained, some of the longer and more important, e.g., "The Lady of Shalott," "The Palace of Art," "A Dream of Fair Women," "Ænone," and "The Miller's Daughter," were either re-written or considerably altered on their reappearance in 1842. The "Hesperides," the "Poems to Kate and Rosalind," the "Darling Room," the lines "To Christopher North," and other pieces, were omitted altogether, and have never been restored. This second volume was severely attacked in the Quarterly Review of July, 1833 (No. 97), in a strain of ironical praise, in an article attributed to John Gibson Lockhart, the Editor of the Quarterly.

1833.

The Lover's Tale. A Fragment. By Alfred Tennyson. London: Edward Moxon. 1833. pp. 60.

A few copies were struck off separately and distributed to college friends and others; but the poem was suppressed before publication, Probably it was originally intended to form a part, perhaps the opening part, of the volume described in the previous entry, dated also 1833, though actually published in the winter of 1832.

This poem seems to have been written in 1828, in the author's nineteenth year, and was apparently printed mainly at the instigation or by the request of Arthur Hallam, for distribution among the author's college intimates. Richard Milnes (afterwards Lord Houghton) possessed a copy, quoted in his own first volume of poems published in 1834 ("Memorials of a Tour in Greece"); and (as already mentioned) a copy was in the possession of W. H. Thompson, afterwards (1835) enriched with marginal autograph corrections by the author, This, and the copy, the early history of which is not apparent, sold at Sotheby's in June, 1870, and eventually acquired by Mr. Pickering (bound up together with the published volumes of 1830 and 1833, and not separately, like Mr. Thompson's copy), are the only two copies I ever saw of the original edition. I never saw an uncut copy. At the sale of the late Mr. Pickering's Tennyson Collection, at Puttick and Simpson's, in 1879, this copy of his brought £40; and at a later date Mr. Thompson's copy, with autograph corrections, fetched £60, at Sotheby and Wilkinson's, In 1869 "The Lover's Tale," with considerable alterations, and with the addition of a hitherto unprinted section, was sent to the press by the author, to accompany or precede the poem of "The Golden Supper," {published in the volume of "The Holy Grail," etc.,) which forms a sequel to it. But it was again suppressed before publication; and "The Golden Supper" (founded on a prose story in the Decameron of Boccaccio) was published alone, on its own merits. Some half-dozen copies of this authorized reprint of 1869 were apparently saved from destruction. One of these was given by Tennyson's publisher of that time, Alexander Strahan, to Mr. George Macdonald, the poet and novelist: another was in the collection, and appears in the privately-printed Catalogue, of Mr. Frederick Locker-Lampson. I never saw a copy of it, and it seems to be almost as rare as the original edition.

In the summer of 1870, and again in 1875, under the auspices of the Editor of "Tennysoniana," the Fragment of "The Lover's Tale" was reprinted, for private circulation, from the original edition, as it appeared in 1833. These two unauthorized reprints were rigorously suppressed and called in, and only a few copies of each were actually circulated.

At last, in 1879, the poem was fully published, in a small green cloth volume, by the author, but considerably altered, and in many parts re-written, with the addition of a new third part and a reprint of "The Golden Supper," to form a fourth and final part, in accordance with the scheme abandoned in 1869 (ten years previously), accompanied by an apologetic prose preface, substituted for the original one which was prefixed to the poem as issued in 1833.

1836-1837.

The Keepsake, for 1837 (an Illustrated Annual) contains an original verse contribution by Alfred Tennyson, the poem of "St. Agnes' Eve," republished in the second volume of the Poems of 1842, as "St. Agnes."

1837.

The Tribute: a Collection of Unpublished Poems, by various authors, edited by Lord Northampton. Lond.: John Murray. 8vo. 1837. Contains an original verse contribution by Alfred Tennyson entitled "Stanzas," not reprinted elsewhere, but incorporated eighteen years later (1855), with some modifications and omissions, into the poem of "Maud," being the substance of the stanzas forming a section of the second part of that poem and commencing:

"O that 'twere possible."

The Tribute also contains some verses by Charles Tennyson Turner.

1842.

Poems1842Poems. In Two Volumes. By Alfred Tennyson. London: Edward Moxon, Dover-street. 1842. pp. 464.

The first volume contains, with a few additions of early date, including the Third Part of "The May Queen," a small selection (afterwards considerably extended) from the Poems of 1830 and 1832, many of the latter being considerably altered or re-written, and "The Sleeping Beauty" (from the volume of 1830), being relegated to the second volume to form a section of the longer poem of "The Day-Dream."

The second volume (with the exception just named, and that of "St. Agnes") consisted of poems previously unpublished.

It seems probable that before the actual publication of these two long-delayed and eagerly - expected volumes, early copies of the proof-sheets were handed about among the author's literary friends with the view of eliciting their suggestions and that some alterations and omissions were made, either by their advice, or by an afterthought of the Poet himself, while the volumes were passing through the press. In 1843 the late Mrs. Procter (the wife of "Barry Cornwall") sent to Samuel Rogers {in a note seen and copied by me several years ago) two stanzas originally printed with "Locksley Hall," which do not appear in the published edition of 1842, or in any subsequent one, but which did appear in 1887, forty-five years subsequently, after they had been known to me for some time, in the sequel entitled "Locksley Hall Sixty Years After."

From whence could these two stanzas be derived if not from an early set of proofs or small privately-printed issue communicated to the Procters before publication? In the Catalogue of Mr. Frederick Locker-Lampson's collection is an autograph copy of the poem of "The Talking Oak," containing two stanzas, quoted in the Catalogue in extenso, not appearing in any of the published editions, but which it is quite possible were also printed in the early proofs, or in some small private issue of the first edition of 1842, and afterwards struck out. There is indeed no evidence, as in the former case, that these two stanzas were actually printed by the author, and not scored through before sending the "copy" to the printer; but there is some considerable prima facie presumption that they were set up in type, like the rest, in the first instance. Early proof-sheets of "In Memoriam" and "Maud" exist, which show that numerous alterations, omissions and additions were made in these poems after they were in type.

1843-1846.

A second, third and fourth edition of the Poems in two volumes, with some alterations and additions, and with the omission of a note to the second volume and of the date (1833) originally appended to the poem of "The Two Voices," appeared in 1843, 1845 and 1846 respectively. These are of considerably less rarity than the first issue: the edition of 1843, like the first edition, was issued in boards; that of 1845 in cloth boards; and that of 1846 in green cloth, gilt-lettered, like most of the succeeding volumes.

Punch of Feb. 28 and March 7, 1846 (vol. x., pp. 103, 106), contains two original poems by Alfred Tennyson, signed "Alcibiades"—"The New Timon and the Poets," and "Afterthought." The first has never been republished by the author; the second, under the title of "Literary Squabbles," reappeared, many years afterwards (1872), in the third volume of the Library Edition of his Collected Works.

1847.

The Princess: a Medley. By Alfred Tennyson, London: Edward Moxon 1847, pp. 164, green cloth, The Second Edition (published in 1848, with the exception of a few slight verbal alterations, and the addition of a brief Dedication to Henry Lushington,) is a reprint of the first. (Moxon, 1848, green cloth, pp. 164.)

1848.

Poems. Fifth Edition. In one volume: Lond.: Edward Moxon, 1848, green cloth, pp. 372.

1849.

To ——, after reading a Life and Letters. Originally published in The Examiner, 1849. Reprinted in the Sixth Edition of Tennyson's Poems, Moxon, 1850.

1850.

In Memoriam. London: Edward Moxon, Dover-street, 1850, dark cloth, pp. 210.

The second and third editions were published in the same year, and contain like the first, in addition to the introductory and concluding poems, 130 numbered sections only. The numbered sections of "In Memoriam" (which eventually increased to 132) were apparently written between the autumn of 1833, after the death of Arthur Hallam in September of that year, and the spring or summer of 1836. The concluding poem, or Epithalamium, was written in 1842, and the Introductory lines bear the date of 1849, in which year the work was presumably printed. I had the opportunity, in 1884, of inspecting a set of early proof-sheets of "In Memoriam" (without the title), which contained only 118 numbered sections, with readings frequently differing considerably from those of the published edition. A detailed account of this set of proof-sheets appeared in a paper of mine, entitled "The Genesis of 'In Memoriam, contributed to Walford's Antiquarian Magazine, in 1887.

The Princess: a Medley. By Alfred Tennyson. Third Edition. London: Edward Moxon, 1850, green cloth, pp. 177.

In this Edition the poem was considerably altered from beginning to end, and in some parts re-written. A considerable number of lines, especially in a long speech of the Princess, were omitted. The six intercalary songs, and the lines of blank verse, forming a sequel to the Prologue, which follow Lilia's Song, were added for the first time.

Poems by Alfred Tennyson. Sixth Edition. In one volume, green cloth. London: Edward Moxon, 1850. With the addition of the Examiner poem of 1849, "After reading a Life and Letters."

This is the last edition including the poem of "The Skipping-Rope," omitted in all subsequent editions of the Minor Poems, and in all Collected Editions of the Poet's Works.

Original unpublished poem, of eight lines, by Alfred Tennyson, not reprinted in any of his volumes, contributed to the Manchester Athenæum Album, small quarto, 1850.

"Here often, when a child, I lay reclined"—

My attention was first directed to this poem in 1875, by a notice written by Mr. W. E. Axon, where it was quoted in extenso, which appeared in Cope's Tobacco Plant, a pleasant monthly folio journal of literary and other gossip, published at Liverpool, It is included in the little volume of sixty-four pages, "The Lover's Tale and other Poems," issued for private circulation in that year.

1850-1851.

The Keepsake for 1851 (an illustrated annual) contains two original unpublished poems contributed by Alfred Tennyson:

1. "What time I wasted youthful hours,"

three stanzas of three lines each, in the metre of "The Two Voices," never reprinted by the author.

2. "Come not, when I am dead"

(disfigured by a misprint, or transposition of words, in the last line of the first stanza). Included, for the first time, in the Seventh Edition of Tennyson's Poems (the first Laureate Edition), in one volume, published in 1851.

Sonnet to Macready.

The text of this Sonnet, addressed to Macready on the occasion of his last farewell performance, and read by Mr. John Forster, with the poet's sanction, shortly afterwards, at the Public Banquet given to that actor on his retirement, must be sought and collated from the best newspapers of the time, It appears in the privately-printed booklet of sixty-four pages, issued in 1875, already alluded to, and in the last collected edition.

1851.

Poems, by Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate, Seventh Edition. London: Edward Moxon, 1851, one volume, green cloth, pp. 375:

The first Laureate Edition, with the stanzas "To the Queen" prefixed, as originally written, including the "Crystal-Palace" stanza, omitted in all subsequent editions. In this edition were also first printed, in a correct form, the lines recently contributed to The Keepsake,

"Come not, when I am dead."

The poem of "The Skipping Rope" (included for the last time in the Edition of 1850) finally disappeared from the collection.

In Memoriam. Fourth Edition. London: Edward Moxon, 1851, dark cloth, pp. 211.

This edition (like all the subsequent editions for the next twenty years) contained 131 numbered sections: a section being added or restored, standing as the fifty-eighth, commencing:

"O Sorrow, wilt thou live with me?"

Index to "In Memoriam" (uniform in size with the volume itself, and available to bind with the fourth edition, or with any succeeding edition containing 131 numbered sections). Lond.: Edward Moxon and Co., 1862, pp. 40.

The compiler's name is not given; but this valuable little index was, not improbably, the work of Mr. Barron Brightwell, who, seven years later, published a large Concordance to Tennyson complete up to date (1869).

In the first Collected Edition of Tennyson's Poetical Works, printed at the Chiswick Press, and issued in small cabinet volumes, a new section, standing as the thirty-third, was added for the first time, or restored, to "In Memoriam," which thus, in all the later editions, contained 132 numbered Sections, in addition to the introductory poem and the concluding Epithalamium.

The Princess: A Medley. By Alfred Tennyson, Fourth Edition, London: Edward Moxon, 1851, green cloth, pp. 182.

In this edition the passages relating to the Prince's weird or cataleptic seizures were first added.

1852.

The Examiner newspaper of January and February, 1852 (at that time edited by John Forster), contains four original unpublished poems by Alfred Tennyson (one or two of them signed "Merlin"): viz,

1. "Britons, guard your own."

2. "Hands all Round."

3. "The Third of February, 1852."

4. "How much I love this writer's manly style."

After the final collapse of the Second French Empire, the poem entitled "The Third of February, 1852," was acknowledged and republished in the third volume of the Library Edition of Tennyson's Collected Works, issued in 1872; and, at a later period, the poem of "Hands all Round," remodelled and adapted to the circumstances of a new time, was arranged for Mr. Santley's singing at St. James's Hall, and reprinted in "Tiresias, and Other Poems" (1885). The first and the last-named of these four poems have never been republished by the author; nor has the last-named ever been republished at all, even in the privately-printed collection, issued in 1875, the authorship of this piece not having then made itself apparent to the compiler.

Mr. Leicester Warren first drew attention to the three earlier of these Examiner patriotic poems (from which he printed copious extracts) in the paper contributed by him to the Fortnightly Review, in October, 1865. They were afterwards reprinted, if not in extenso, with the omission of a few stanzas only, in the first edition of "Tennysoniana," as originally printed; but these extracts had to be curtailed or rescinded in the published edition.

Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington. By Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate, 8vo., pp. 16, with half-title and title, in purple wrapper, repeating title. London: Edward Moxon, 1852.

The First Edition contains a passage of five lines omitted in all subsequent issues of the poem.

1853.

Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington. A New Edition, 8vo., in wrapper, pp. 16. London: Edward Moxon, 1853.

This edition contains, in the second stanza, a line not contained in the first edition, and omitted in all subsequent issues of the poem. Considerable alterations and additions were made throughout, adopted in the later and current text of the poem, as it reappeared in the "Maud" volume, and in collected editions of the poet's works. It is of much greater rarity than the first edition. The only copy I ever possessed was purchased at Cambridge, in 1874 or 1875, at the original price of one shilling, of Messrs. Macmillan and Co., who then apparently held a small remainder of it (which, however, they kept carefully in the background, declining to part with a second copy), long before they became Tennyson's publishers; and the late Mr. B. M. Pickering, if I remember rightly, gave me ten shillings for this copy on my return to London. I never, before or since, saw another, except the bound copy in the British Museum.