The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-05-27

he goes on to say: 'Tennyson was never
Democratic at heart, he never understood
what Democracy In its reality meant.
much less did he ever conceive Its Ideal.
He was always an aristocrat though
he would have said. with justice, that
IL was a government OF the best mel
that he desired and not government OF
birth and rank alone.
All ranks and classes into closer SYM
patty with one another, and placed them
hand In hand on a common ground OF
humanity; but when 1t came to extend
ing that community Of human relation
ship into the political or the social
sphere, he not only drew back, he did
not understand what this meant.
His age was wildly with him, and
he wrote Of patriotism, OF the proper
conception OF freedom, OF the sad condl-
ton OF the poor. OF the w0man's po-
sition in the onward movement Of the
world, OF the place OF commerce and
science In the movement, OF war az the
remedy for the selfshness and evils OF
commerce, and OF the future OF the race.
These are the main things he touched.
The book proper Is an endeavor TO H.
lustrate, by critical analysis OF the
I'm the introduction" from which we
have made very brief and inadequate
quotations.
Mr.. Brookes literary style would not
be called finished, but 1t is az clear and
attractive as his analysis OF the TAure-
ate's poetry is keen and his insight into
his mind and character sympathetic. He
does not make a single proposition which
he does not support with the most
STRAIGHTFORWARD logic, and he has crystal
lzed his views most happily.
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