27 APRIL 1901, Page 14

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sra,—In the article on

"Vastness and Isolation" in the Spectator of April 20th the writer says : "Tennyson, too, seems to have had experience of the mood." If he will refer to Tyndall's "A Glimpse of Farringford," in Lord Tennyson's Life, Vol. H., pp. 473-74, he will find a very striking description of the seizures to which Tennyson said he was subject. Tyndall states that Wordsworth also was similarly affected.

—I am, Sir, &c., W. W. WARD. 4 The Paragon, Clifton, Bristol.