The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-12
a Beautiful story.
TENYYsoN AND THE oUEEN-THE PLACE OF ENoCH
ARDKN's DEATH.

ARDEN DEATH.
The following interesting article, translated
from German paper, the Gartenlaube, will be
read with pleasure by all the admirers of "g good
Queen VIC" the "poet laureate, - and the idyl Of
Enoch Arden. The Gartenlaube says:
Few poems have Of late created a greater sen.
sation, both in England and North America, than
the fisher idyl, "Enoch Arden" of the English
poet laureate. Its success was a truly extraOr-
binary one, and we recently read in the news.
papers that during the Paris Exposition. no less
than five thousand copies month were sold of
the cheap continental edition Of Tennyson's
works, by Engshmen visiting the Champ de
Mars. This gives Us but faint idea of the whole
circulation Of his works, for IN North America
alone their sale has been still more extensive.
For the rest TennysOn is not very wealthy
man, because he dislikes TO raise exOrbitant de-
mands. Nevertheless, by this time it can be said
of him as Of King Midas of yOre, that all he
touches turns into gold, for the most popular
magazines and reviews are anxious TO profit by
bis lame, and they offer enormous sums in order
to get poem from the author who has often been
silent for several years. Thus, Good Words paid
him, few months ago two thousand pounds for
twelve minor poems and Messrs. TicknOr d Fields,
of Boston, are known TO have voluntarily paid to
him large amounts Ps remuneration for his poems,
which they publish in America.
Queen Victoria is of the most ardent ad-
MIXERS of Tennyson's poems, and shortly after
EnOch Arden had appeared, she heard that Ten
nysOn's enemies and enyiers charged that poem
with being immoral and a glorIfcatiOn Of concu.
blDage. she applied to an eminent clergyman,
and learned from him that such cases Of bigsmy,
it true. were not very rare, and those whom
such misfortune beheld might, perhaps, be par
coDed by the Lord on the Day of Judgment, for
the mercy Of the God of heaven and earth knew
no bounds; but that it indicated an alarming
moral confusion on the part of the poet TO repre-
sent in a kind Of halo a man who tolerated the
continuance Of such sinful relationship between
-. Nwln
was doing. Instead of appearing before his wife
IN order TO resume his position as her husband, ne
lay down and died.
The queen was not a little disquieted on hearing
this. II is true she was well aware that some OF
the high church digniiaries not very favor
ably disposed toward TennysOn. His open letter
to rector named Maurice, who had removed
from his cure, had not been forgotten. Bat since
her husbands death, the queen had accustomed
herself more and more to attach higher import
ance 10 the voices OF her surroundings than 70 her
own opinions, and thus she was for while una
bic 70 decide whether EnOch Arden really de-
served the harshness with which u has been crit-
cised or not. Finally, she thought she had bet
ter consult somebody else on the subject, and she
happened TO apply 10 person VINO censnred
TeInysons poem with still greater severity,
when was no wonder, considering that this per
son was no other than the lady who IS COM
monty believed 10 be the subject Of one Of Tenny-
sons earlier poems, the celebrated Lady We're
de We're the pOetical rejection of an aristo-
cratic coquette, who had cast her nets after the
| poet when be was still very young man.
After this two-fOd condemnation of Enoch
| Arden, whose wonderful success had meanwhile
| fallen in a thousand echoes upon her ears, the
| queen thought it would be best for her to speak
with the poet himself on the subject which he had
/ treated OF in EnOch Arden. She, therefore, ex'
| tended her drive along the sea-shore that very
| afternoon beyond its usual length, and ordered
| the coachman 10 drive further west. Osborne,
| the queens country seat on the Isle Of Wight, is
| rather distant from the house of the poet, who
lives likewise, on that island but no distance Is
! very considerable there, and the roads all over
| the island are excellent. She soon after saw the
poets house, which lies in the middle Of a small
grove of pines and frs, peering forth between the
yerdure and foliage around 1t.
The queen was accompanied by two Of her
| daughters. When she perceived TennysOn's
| form in his garden-his long hair and full beard
caused her TO recognize him at q glance-she ln-
trusted Der sketch.bOok and the metal box IN
| which she gathered flowers and plants for her
herbarium TO the princessss, and walked alone TO