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recovered $2 800 damages with a perpet- ual injunction. By this time he had got such sore feeling toward Americans that he could not bear what he deemed Their intrusion upon his privacy at Far lington; and as it was impossible to re- st the importantly of their visits there he built himself new home called Ald- worth in a secluded part of. Sussex, and there he gave it to be understood that ''No Americans need apply" For all that, he was on the best terms with E. J. Phelps and also with the late |emes Rus sell Lowell; and, in fact, his irritation against Americans was never much more than skin deep. He has never forgotten that the finest compliment paid him in his life was the spontaneous thought of gallant American. When in 1854 Capt Kane, the polar navigator, dicovered the great Arctic column, 500 feer high, in 79 north latitude, he named it Tennyson's monument, and the beautiful engraving of his drawing of it forms one of the most conspicuous ornaments of his book of travels. Much more recently, the poet laureate was greatly pleased by the Ternyson society of Philadelphia apply ing to him for motto and adopting his own, ''Truth Against the World" In 1883, Tennyson went on yachting tour with MT Gladstone to Denmark, and there, at the invitation of King Christian, had a very pleasant meeting with the czar and czarina and the king and queen of Greece. The cZar was so charmed by him that he visited him on board his yacht and insisted on his reading some of his poems to him. Whether his Mos covite majesty understood them or not is open to doubt; though, like most Rus sians, he is an elegant linguist and well versed in English literature. Long be- fore that, Tennyson had refused baron etcy and the Grand Cross of the Bath, but on their return from Denmark, MT Gladstone prevailed on him to accept a peerage. He assumed the title of Baron Tennyson of Aldworth and Farringford and it is the wish of all his countrymen that it may long continue in his line. He was the first commoner ever raised to the house of lords for literary eminence alone. Lord Houghton-the poet Monc- ton Milnes-was also an active politician and distinguished member of parlia- ment. Lord Macaulay was an Indian ad
 ministrator and a prominent public man. Lord Lytton was famous statesman. But Tennyson never did anything con- spicuous in his life except write poetry and to him belongs the unique honor of having twined the laurel round a coronet. He has never appeared in the House of Lords since he took his seat in robes, by the bye, which were lent him for the oc- casion by a brother peer and were much voted in the minority for reform in the franchise. He is the most modest and retiring of mankind, shrinking from the public gaze and loving seclusion and quiet contemplation. Among his family and friends, he is dearly loved and in all his life has never been known to do an unjust or ungenerous thing. AS he bore poverty and neglect with patience and sweetness, so he bears his wealth and ti- tie without particle of vanity. In ap- pearance, he is still very much as Carlyle described him nearly half a century ago, with the addition of full beard and a great many wrinkles. The stately fig ure, full six feet high, is now greatly bent; but he carries his eighty-two years nobly, as becomes great good man who has ever "borne the white flower of blameless life."-CE Edward Wakefield in New Haven Register.