Lord Tennyson : a Biographical Sketch. By Henry Jennings. (Ghetto
and Windus.)—Mr. Jennings begins by quoting the poet's fine lines written "After reading the Life and Letters of a Deceased Poet." And he observes in his book the limitations which that vigorous protest against a too prying curiosity enforces. Some of us feel a lingering wish that no man's biography should be written while he is still alive ; but such abstinence on the part of biographers and readers is clearly impossible, and the only thing to be prayed for is that the inevitable "sketch," for which the public, will not wait, should be written with an adequate understanding of the subject, st, sympathetic intelligence, and, above all, discretion and good-taste. These qualifications Mr. Jennings seems to possess, and the interest which we cannot but feel in his subject is not dashed by the feeling that the writer is overstepping the boundary of good-feeling. A better account of the poet's" Life and Works," is not, we think, to be found.
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