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 wretched poetaster published an "Anti-Maud." A defender came forward with a little work entitled: "Tennyson's 'Maud' Vindicated; an Explanatory Essay. By R. J. Mann, M.D. Jarrold and Sons, St. Paul's Churchyard."

The following extract from a letter of Mr. Tennyson's to Dr. Mann has been made public:

"No one with this Essay before him can in future pretend to misunderstand my dramatic poem, 'Maud:' your commentary is as true as it is full."

In a small anonymous volume of Poems, entitled "Ionica," another defender came forward with some lines of considerable merit, entitled "After reading 'Maud,' September, 1855."

The poem of "Maud" was considerably enlarged in the new edition of 1856. In the edition of 1859 it