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 The following passages from the Remains of Arthur Clough will be very interesting read in connexion with the poem entitled "In the Valley of Cauteretz."

"My plans are changed. This morning about 8.30, going across the place to the café, whom should I see but Tennyson. They are all here. They go to the Pyrenees, and I am to follow them.

"The Tennysons are at Bigorre. I am very glad to have the prospect of joining them.

"I have been over to Luchon to see the Tennysons, whom I found very comfortably established in pleasant lodgings out of the town, in maize fields, not far from the river.

"The Tennysons arrived at 6.30 yesterday. Tennyson was here with Arthur Hallam thirty-one