432 ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON. 



"Tithonus" and the "Lotos-Eaters," more with their scene laid 

 on English ground. There will be a few exquisite lyrics. 

 There will be several selections from "In Memoriam," and a 

 passage or two from " Maud. " There will be the " Idylls of the 

 King," a good deal abridged. Of how many great poets of old 

 days is a larger proportion familiar to cultivated people? 



What, then, is the place of Tennyson? Not with the very few 

 giants whose names we breathe with loving awe, — iEschylus, 

 Dante, Shakespeare ; but with the great English poets who have 

 made our literature the only one to be mentioned beside the 

 Greek, — with Chaucer and Spenser, with Dryden and Pope, 

 with Byron and Scott and Burns and Wordsworth and Shelley. 

 In such glorious company we may believe that Tennyson has his 

 place. 



1893. Edward J. Lowell. 



The Academy has received an accession of twenty-three 

 Resident Fellows, eleven Associate Fellows, and seven Foreign 

 Honorary Members. 



The Roll of the Academy, corrected to date, includes the 

 names of 191 Fellows, 95 Associate Fellows, and 73 Foreign 

 Honorary Members. 



May 10, 1893. 



