29 JUNE 1895, Page 40

The Teaching of Tennyson. By John Oates. (Elliot Stock.)— Mr.

Oates groups the poems together and draws out the moral and theological meaning which is to be found in them with much sympathy and insight. Where they are already grouped by the poet himself, as in the " In Memoriam" and the " Idylls of the King," he gives a continuous commentary which will be found very full of help to the reader.