1 MARCH 1890, Page 3

Lord Tennyson has been very ill ; but we are

thankful to observe that he is well advanced in his recovery. We cannot spare him yet. "Passing the Bar" indicates so large a reserve of poetical power, that the country would be inconsolable if the Poet-Laureate passed the bar just now. The tide will flow again, we trust, before he passes on its ebb across this bank and shoal of time.