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6 by Frederick Tennyson in one of the volumes of Friendship's Offering containing a similar contribution from his younger and more famous brother; but he published (whatever he may have printed privately) no collection of English Poems until 1854, when the volume of "Days and Hours," bearing his name on the title, was issued by J. W. Parker and Son. He had, at that time, attained his forty-eighth year.

Poems, Chiefly Lyrical. By Alfred Tennyson. London: Effingham Wilson, 1830. (pp. 154, leaf of Errata, no Table of Contents.)

It had originally been intended to publish these poems conjointly with those of Arthur Hallam; but by the advice of Hallam's father the contributions of the latter were withdrawn, and issued, separately and anonymously, for private circulation only. I never saw but one copy of Arthur Hallam's collected Poems. Tennyson's maiden volume attracted considerable attention from the leading Reviews of the period; it was noticed at unusual length by the Westminster Review, and in Blackwood's Magazine by Christopher North,—whose criticism called forth an epigram from the young