25 MAY 1901, Page 23

Tennyson's In Memoriam. Edited, with Commentary, by Arthur W. Robinson,

B.D. (Cambridge University Press. 28. Gd.) —We can speak in very high terms of this volume. It gives us exactly what is wanted. The text is not overloaded with criticism or comment,—and it would be easy to do this in dealing with an author so learned and so allusive as was Tennyson ; the whole poem is divided into "books," according to the moods repre- sented ; the connection between the various cantos and the development of thought and feeling is clearly traced; and some special note is given when some difficulty seems to demand it.