A Hundred Years Ago
THE " SPECTATOR," AUGUST 21sT, 1830.
ROYAL Gossip.
His Majesty, on visiting the gardens at Hampton Court, was received by the head gardener, who alighted from his carriage. " Mr. —," said the King, " I do not wish to see you in your carriage ; a plain buggy will do as well. You are head gardener at Windsor and other places ; too much to do ; you must resign Hampton gardens ; others should share ; too many places for one gardener to hold." The situation is worth between four and five hundred a year. This pluralist of cabbages, &c., will lose a portion of his celery, and Royal benevolence will be extended.
TFNNYSON.
This little volume is the production, we have been told, of a Cam- bridge man, who gained the Chancellor's medal last year for English verse. We have no great liking for prize poetry ; and it was with a sort of agreeable surprise, that, after being told of Mr. Tennyson's academical achievements, we found, on glancing over the present work, that he had produced a volume of very pleasant verses—a volume in which a good deal has been effected, and in which there is no uncertain indication of much more to be done. It has faults also ; and we scruple tho less in noticing them, because we somewhat confidently expect to most the author again.
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