28 APRIL 1883, Page 24

A Study ; with Critical and Explanatory Notes of Alfred

Tennyson's Poem, "The Princess." By S. E. Dawson. (Sampson Low and Co.) —Very critical, highly explanatory, rather pompons, and quite un- necessary. "The Princess" is not a mystery, and Mr. Tennyson has displayed the great charm of lucidity to peculiar advantage in that work. The loving labour of these explainers of the meaning of the men who of all others explain themselves best, is a ridiculously appo- site realisation of the French proverb that tells us how needless it is enfoncer une porte ourerte.