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 This little volume of Milnes's has, however, a still greater interest in connexion with Tennyson. For, besides a quotation from Charles Tennyson's sonnets in the Preface, and another from "The Lotos-Eaters" in the introduction to "Ithaca" (p. 28), there is, at page 50, the following extract from a poem never published:

The poem from which these lines are taken is entitled "The Lover's Tale." It was printed in 1833, but withdrawn before publication, and apparently only a few copies were given away among the writer's personal friends. "Shortly after the publication of his second volume," says Mr. Powell, "Alfred Tennyson printed a poem called 'The Lover's Tale:' this, however, he suppressed, contenting himself with giving a few copies away. It is," he adds, "decidedly unworthy his reputation." Respecting the justice of