6 OCTOBER 1917, page 9

" Pr On Ii Eers " ?

A SCURRY of noise under my window, a quick footstep, yokes talkMg confusedly, and then in a thick rich brogue the words, "She's gone down, down by the head !" rose clearly on......

Tennyson Twenty-five Years After.

O N October 8th, 1892, died Alfred Tennyson, who for half-a. century had been by universal assent chief of the English poets of his age. He had had contemporaries, it is true,......