ALFRED TENNYSON
From the painting by Samuel Laurence
Rischgitz Collection
many of the men of that time it would appear from their writings that it was the heart-breaking and desolating discovery of the end and origin of the chain. To them had happened the most black and hopeless catastrophe conceivable to human nature; they had found a logical explanation of all things. To them it seemed that an Ape had suddenly risen to gigantic stature and destroyed the seven heavens. It is difficult, no doubt, for us
TENNYSON’S MOTHER
From a photo by Messrs. Carlton & Sons, Horncastle