5 NOVEMBER 1881, page 10

The Spread Of "passivity."

" p ASSIVITY " is a cumbrous and slightly affected word, but we know of no other which expresses precisely the same idea ; and as it has made its way into metaphysics and......

• Mr. Tennyson's Poem On Despair.

T HE able critic of Tennyson's latest volume, in the Edin- burgh Review, has invented a very far-fetched theory of the comparative unproductiveness of Mr. Tennyson's later......