Tennyson vs Longfellow. We copy the annexed paragraph from a late number of the Philadelphia Gazette. We ask the Weekly Messenger, who has repeated the charge of abstraction , to clip this caveat , and give it utterance. That the reviewer, indeed, has nothing beyond truth as his object, is rendered quite apparent by the fact that nowhere has the fine genius of Professor Longfellow been so fully and so enthusiastically set forth, as in the earlier portion of the very critique now made the subject of comment.
Matters standing thus, the question is altogether one of opinion.
He says the Professor did not steal the poem. Whether Mr. Poe will oblige the editor of the Gazette, remains yet to be seen.