These child-hood and girl-hood recollections of Tennyson and the life he lived at Farringford began when at the age of three the writer and the poet celebrated a birthday together. Many little incidents of Tennyson’s devotion to his invalid wife and his two sons are given, there are anecdotes of his friends and his friendships and the picture of this happily congenial household is a pleasing addition to our knowledge of the laureate.
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Elson, Henry William. School history of the United States. *90c. Macmillan.
A work whose “record of our national development neglects no phase of progress—social, industrial, political, or literary—and takes note of the underlying causes at work, as well as of the changes wrought. In subjects that have been hotly controverted its temper is eminently fair and judicial. Designed for young people in their teens, many of the elders will find it both interesting and instructive. Foot-notes are often skipped, but Mr. Elson’s are so full of anecdote as to escape neglect.”—Outlook.