4 FEBRUARY 1899, Page 13

[TO THE EDITOR ON T'HE "SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—The origin of the metre and the various sources of in- spiration of " In Memoriam " are very fully discussed in chap. 7 of Mr. Churton Collins's " Illustrations of Tennyson,"

published in 1891.-1 am, Sir, &c., A. C.