Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-10-07
1OLlE IN WESTMINSTER.
The Poet Looks Fifteen Years Younger
Than Before Dosth-"CymbeIine."
Try Anglo-American cable 10 the Dispatch.l

The Poet Looks Fifteen Years Younger
Than Before Death-" CymbeIine."
fBy Angio-American cable 10 the Dspatch.l
LONDON, OctoberG.-The Canon Of West
minister Abbey has formally invited Hal
lam Tcnnyson to bury his father IN West
Minister Abbey. The poets funeral will he
public. The Bishop of Winchester will
preach the funeral sermon III the Hasie-
mere church on Sunday.
The body of Lord Tennyson lies on the
bed III winch he died. lie looks fifteen
years younger than before death, the lines
and wrinkles of the face beng less appa-
rent. The beard which was unkempt in
life, has been carefully trimmed; the
hands are folded over the chest; laurel
wreath crowns the head and another lies at
the feet The coyerlet over the body IS
almost hidden beneath flowers.
BALLAM TESSYsoN ILL.
Hallam Teunyson is now so Ill as TO be
confined to his bed
A friend OF the bereaved family states
that Yesterday afternoon. curing q wake
tul moment. lord Iennyson asked for a
copy OF Shakespeare. and with bis own
hands turned the leaves until nc found the
dirge IL "Cymbelnc.' Then he fixed his
eyes on the Uages, but he did not speak:
and whether he read the lines or not Is
not knCHn. soon ne again passed INTO
slunbor. an1 MS LETT hand rested on the
open book until he passed away.
SUCCESSOR TO The LAUREATEsHIP.
The PdEMqH Gazette thinks that MIR.
Gladstone will appoint Algernon Swim
hume to the post Of POet-Lauroate, made
vacant by the death Of TenuysoD.
TIN YsONs Liz AND woEK.
AlfreI Tcnny4on, Baron Teunyson Of Aldworth,
5u&e1, and o. Freshwater. Isle Of Wight, was
the thrt son Of ths late Rev. q. c. Ieunyson,
the elder orJtaer OF the late Right uon. {. Ten
nysCn DEyncOurf. and was born In 1902. lie
was educated by u father ant In due course
prOr0aici 10 trinity college. Cambridge. In
1922 he gained the Chanceors modal by
poem H. DlanG verse entitled "TimOuctoO."
~ lcnnysOn did not publish anything OF i'm
p0usnco untl 1880, when Poems Chiefly
Lyical appeared and from 1872 the steady
and rapid growth Of his fame may be traced 10
was at once apparent that the author of the
" aorto Arthur" "LOcksley Hall" the "May
Queen" and the - Two Voices" Was entitled 10
IN q the first rank among English poets, a repu-
tGtion whlch was more than sustained by the
two great works which followed. lie published
"in Memoram" in 1850 and it seemed
only q matter OF course. upon the
privilege OF wearing 1.-THE laurel gteener
from the brows OF lin who uttered nothing
base should be offered 10 him. This also
the yoar Of his marriage TO Emily, daughter Of
Henry SelwOod, Esq, OF Berkshire, and niece of
Sir John Franklin, by whom no has had two sons,
Hnllam ana Lionel The lode on the Death OF
on the morning OF the funeral. ami since that
occurrence few events OF more than ordinary in
terest In the eyes Of Englishmen have taken
place without eliciting from the laureate some
poem worthy of the occasion.
Among his dramatic compositions are "Queen
Mary" 1875; Harold" 1876; "The Cup" a
play which was represented at the Lycelm
Theatre January 3, 1881, Mr. Irving taking the
principal character las WAS also Queen Mary
aud the "FalcOn," produced by Mr.. and Mrs.
Kendall, and "Ihe Promise OF May" a drama
in three acts, brough out at the Globe Theatre
November IL, 1882. "A Concordance 20 the
Entire Works OF Alfred TennysOn," published IN
1869, IL o remarkable proof of the laureato's
great popularity. At the conmemoration Of
1855 the University OF oxford conferred on the
poet the honorary degree Of ID. c. L., and the
fellows Of his own college, Trinity, Cambridge,
endorsing the judgment OF the sister university,
subscribed to purchase his bust (by Woolner),
which they have placed In their library, and IN
1889 they unanimously elected him an honor
airy Fellow OF the college. In December, 1853,
Mr.. Tennyson accepted peerego as Baron
Tennyson, OF Aldworth, Sussex, and . Fresh
water, Isle OF Wight Since then he has pub
hshed "Becket," Tresias and Other Poeus"
and at the end Of 1856 "LOcksley Hall-Sixty
Years After, and IN his S1st year he produced
another volume, "Demeter and Other POEMS"
which has been very popular with both the
English and American public.