Morning journal and courier., 1892-10-07
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
From ALI Quarters.
POET LAUREATE DEAD.
Tennyson, a Literary Genius
of the Century.
AMERICAN BOARD OF MISSIONS,
Sharon Case Settled After
Thirteen Years.
A TRAIN WRECKED IN THE Yards.
Endorsing Political Union
With Canada.
A Train WRECKED IN THE Yards.
THE POET LAUREATE DEAD.

Lord Tennyson Passes Away-The
Closing Scenes Described by the
Physician, Sir Andrew Clark-The
Canon Invites the Burial of the
Remains in Westminster Abbey
Sketch OF the Poets Career.
LONDON, Oct. 6.-Lord Tennyson died
at his home, Aldworth, near Haslemere,
Surrey, at 1:35 o'clock this morning.
Sir Andrew Clark, one of the physicians
who attended Lord Tennyson, in an inter
view just after his patients death, said
that it was the most glorious death he had
ever seen. He died as peacefully and as
gently as he had lived. All the members
Of his family were by the bed
side, and Sir Andrew Clark remained
there from the moment of his arrival
yesterday until his patient breathed his
last. So gentle and painless was Lord
Tennyson's passing away that the family
did not know he had gone until DR.. Clark
told Lady Tennyson, who bore the closing
scenes of her great trial we'll, notwithstand-
ing her extremely delicate health.
Alfred Tennyson, forty-three years poet
laureate of England, was born on August
6, 1909, in his fathers parsonage at Som
erby, Lincolnshire. No English poet of
the first rank has reached such an age as
this. Wordsworth lived to see his eight
ieth birthday, but his last years were
made almost uncomfortable by physical suf-
fering.
The body of Lord Tennyson lies on the
bed in which he died. He looks fifteen
&hov, hofo Iaokh 1snao
and wrinkles of the face being less appar-
emit. The beard, which was unkempt in
life, has been carefully trimmed, the hands
are folded over the chest; a laurel wreath
crowns the head and another lies at the
feet. The coverlet over the body is almost
hidden beneath the flowers which have
been placed upon it. Burning Wax tapers
lend subdued light to the chamber. The
bishop of Winchester will preach the
funeral sermon in the Haslemere church
on Sunday.
The canon of Westminster Abbey has
formally invited Hallam Tennyson to bury
his father in Westminster Abbey. Hallam
Tennyson is now 80 i'll as to be confined to
his bed.
Tennyson came of an ancient Norman
family of honorable and at times eminent
name. His father, Rev. DR.. George Clay
ton Tennyson, was a man of great energy
and lofty stature. Alfred was the third
of eleven children, several of whom
showed considerable precocity as children
in the writing of verses and tales.
Alsred's first work of any note was blank
verse poem of $50 lines, called "Timbuc-
too" 1t won the chancellor's prize at
Cambridge, where he was student under
Dr. Wheweil in Trinity college. Shortly
after the winning of this prize he and his
hrokhor FroIorioH iooro1 oof
verse, "Poems by Two Brothers," printed
for private circulation. 1t passed un-
noticed, although now copies of 1t are
worth their weight in notes. "Poems,
Chiefly Lyrical" was the first volume hsv
ing his name, and it gained him no fame,
although the merit of some of the lyrics
WAS recognized by a few critics. These
two first volumes appeared while he was
still a student at Cambridge. The
third, which contained among other
we'll known poems "The Miller's
Daughter" "The May Queen" "The Lo-
tos Eaters" and "The Lady of Shalott,"
the university AS this volume was re-
ceived silently by the critics, except here
and there a few words of scant praise or
curt blame. Tennyson published no more
for nine years.
At the end of that time, in 1912, he sent
out two volumes, filled with those shorter
poems which are familiar to all the world.
In it were "Locksley Hall, "Morte d'Ar-
thur" s'Godiva," ''Lady Clara We're de
We're, i" "The Lord of Burliegh," and "The
Gardeners Daughter" With this volume
his fame began. All England was reading
these poems and was talking of them.
Wordsworth had almost ceased writing, and
Tennyson soon became recognized as the
coming English poet. From that time until
now his fame has been increasing, and for
nearly half century he has enjoyed the
highest reward the world mas for those
who genius it recognizes.
In December, 1883, Tennyson accepted
| peerage, and in 1884 he became Baron
Tennyson of Aldworth, Surrey and Far,
| Iingford, Freshwater. Isle of Wight.
The title of Baron Tennyson is heredi-
tary. 1t now belongs to his elder son, Hal.
lam Tennyson, who has been his father
private secretary ever since he left col,
lege. Tennyson has another con, Lionel
born on March Is. 1854. Hallam was borr
on August II, 1859.