"I lately heard from Aubrey de Vere with a request to my sister and self to contribute something to a verse collection. We looked up scraps and expected proofs, but these come not, and I imagine that the result, when in type, will be the usual incentive to Blasphemy."
The Ballad of Oriana.
Tennyson.
By Holman Hunt.
By permission of Messrs. Macmillan & Co.
Mr. W. M. Rossetti, writing of his brother's social peculiarities, says:
"He assumed the easy attitude of one born to dominate—to know his own place and to set others in theirs. He was a genial despot, good natured, hearty and unassuming in manner, and only tenacious upon the question at issue."
