136 The Humming Bird. 



Souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse, le Prêtre de Némi, 



I'AbBESSE DE JOUARRE, le JUDAÏSME, ETC., ETC. 



His qualities as a writer gave him one of the first places 

 in modern Literature. 



His funerals have been celebrated with magnificence, at 

 the cost of the French Government, and it has been decreed, 

 that his remains should be deposited in the Panthéon. 



4 892. — October 6 th , Alfred Tennyson, the English Poet 

 Laureate, died in London, aged hi, after a short malady. 

 Alfred Tennyson was born in 1809 at his father's parsonage 

 at Somerly, Lincolnshire. He was partly educated at home 

 and at a local boarding school. In due time, he proceeded to 

 Trinity College, Cambridge, where he gained the Chancel- 

 lor's Medal for a prize poem, entitled : Timbuctoo. 



Up to 1850, appeared several of his poems, such as the 

 Palace of Art, a Dream of Fair Women, the Lady of 

 Shallot, the May Queen, Lady Clare Vere de Vere, Dora, the 

 Gardener's Daughter, Locksley Hall, Mort d'Arthur, etc. 



In 1850, In Memoriam, which produced a great sensation. 

 Shortly after, he was appointed Poet Laureate. His official 

 poems have generally marked the death or marriage of 

 some member of the reigning house. Of all these, the finest 

 is the Dedication of the Idylls of the King to Queen Victoria. 

 Maud was published in 1855, Enoch ARDENin 1864, the Win- 

 dow or the Songs of the Wrens in 1870, the Lover's Tale in 

 1879, Sixty Years After in 188H, Demeter in 1889. 



Nearly ten years ago, Tennyson accompanied Mr Gladstone 

 on a cruise in northern seas, and early in 1884, he accepted 

 a peerage, which descends to his only surviving son, Hallain 

 Tennyson. On the l2 lh , the remains of Tennyson were laid 

 to rest in the Poet's Corner, in Westminster Abbey. 



1892. — October 12 th , Xavier Marmier, Member of the 

 French Academy, Ex-Keeper of the Library of Sainte- 

 Geneviève, died in Paris, aged 82. — Mr Xavier Marmier, was 

 born at Ponlarlier in 1809, was chiefly a writer of travels. 

 He was a distinguished linguist. He was elected a Member 

 of the French Academy in 1870. 



One of his best books is entitled : Le Succès par la Persé- 

 vérance. 



He was very fond of buying books on the Paris quays, 

 where he was well known. In his will, he left a sum of one 

 thousand francs to the Quay's booksellers, this money to be 

 spent in a banquet on the day of his funerals. For some 

 reasons, this banquet did not take place on that day, but 

 a few days ago. 



