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 chiefly Lyrical," there appeared a small volume of poems by Charles Tennyson, who had been associated with his brother in the volume of 1827. This little book contains a sonnet to Arthur Hallam, and a Dedicatory Sonnet "To my sister Mary."

These two volumes were reviewed together by Leigh Hunt in the "Tatler," where he entered into a somewhat lengthy disquisition on the respective merits of the two brothers, finally awarding the palm to Alfred.

By a careful comparison of Charles Tennyson's little volume with the "Poems by Two Brothers," the reader who is fortunate enough to possess both will find much additional help in appropriating the pieces