29 JUNE 1901, Page 16

" TATES PEERLKAMPIA." [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In

reading your interesting article on the luxe Peerl- kampia in the Spectator of June 22nd I was forcibly reminded

of the beautiful sonnet in Lord Tennyson's later poems, entitled "Poets and their Bibliographies," beginning, "Old poets fostered under friendlier skies." I transcribe the con- cluding lines in case any of your readers like to see how an admirable poet has summed up this danger :— " You see your Art still shrined in human shelves, You should be jubilant that you flourished here Before the love of letters, overdone, Had swampt the sacred poets with themselves."