A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'

A KEY TO LORD TENNYSON’S
“IN MEMORIAM.”
GEORGE BELL & SONS, LONDON: YORK ST., COVENT GARDEN NEW YORK: 66, FIFTH AVENUE, AND BOMBAY: 53, ESPLANADE ROAD CAMBRIDGE: DEIGHTON, BELL & CO
A KEY TO
LORD TENNYSON’S
“IN MEMORIAM”
BY ALFRED GATTY, D.D. VICAR OF ECCLESFIELD AND SUB-DEAN OF YORK
LONDON GEORGE BELL AND SONS 1900
First Published, 1881. Second Edition, 1885 ; Third Edition, 1891 ; Fourth Edition, 1894 ; Reprinted, 1897, 1900 .
TO THE CHERISHED MEMORY OF THE MOTHER OF MY CHILDREN, I DEDICATE THIS BRIEF LABOUR OF LOVE.—A. G.

When any one has survived the allotted age of man, there is a long past to remember, and a short future to expect; and it is the period of youth which is then found most clearly recorded on the tablets of the brain—the days, probably, of school and college, and the first establishment of a self-made home.