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circumstances of a new time, was arranged for Mr. Santley's singing at St. James's Hall, and reprinted in "Tiresias, and Other Poems" (1885). The first and the last-named of these four poems have never been republished by the author; nor has the last-named ever been republished at all, even in the privately-printed collection, issued in 1875, the authorship of this piece not having then made itself apparent to the compiler.

Mr. Leicester Warren first drew attention to the three earlier of these Examiner patriotic poems (from which he printed copious extracts) in the paper contributed by him to the Fortnightly Review, in October, 1865. They were afterwards reprinted, if not in extenso, with the omission of a few stanzas only, in the first edition of "Tennysoniana," as originally printed; but these extracts had to be curtailed or rescinded in the published edition.

Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington. By Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate, 8vo., pp. 16, with half-title and title, in purple wrapper, repeating title. London: Edward Moxon, 1852.

The First Edition contains a passage of five lines omitted in all subsequent issues of the poem.