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and how to reach them, article, - 998
Mitchell's Astronomy, noticed,
Mitchell, (D. G) Address at Nor-
wich, noticed,

McCosh's Intuitions of the
noticed,

Messianic Prophecy and the Life
of Christ, by Kennedy, noticed,
Metaphysicians, (Scotch,) remarks
on, by W. A. Larned, article,
Metaphysics, Sir W. Hamilton's Lec-
tures on, reviewed,
Methodism, Difficulties of Arme-
nian, noticed,

Methodist Quarterly, strictures on
the New Englander replied to,
article,

Mid-Day Thoughts for the Weary,
noticed,

Milburn's Pioneers and Preachers,
noticed,

Miller, (Hugh,) Davies' answer to,
noticed,
Milman's Latin Christianity, no
ticed,
Miscellanies by Kingsley, noticed, 547
Minister's Wooing, by Mrs. Stowe,
reviewed by L. Bacon,
Missions, Half Century of Foreign,
by L. Bacon, article,
Missions, (Primitive,) by J. P.
Thompson,

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Presbyterian Church in Ireland,
History of, by S. D. Alexander,
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Physics, by B. Silliman, Jr, noticed, 1115 | Sermons, by Dr. Emmons, noticed,
Planets, the New, article, by D.
Kirkwood,

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Preachers and Preaching, Murray,
noticed,

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Sermons, Spurgeon, noticed,

Sermons, Trinitarian, preached to a
Unitarian Congregation, W. L.
Gage, noticed,

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of the United States, noticed, 1090
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Sir Philip, noticed,
Signet-Ring and other Gems, no-
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Samaritan, Diary of, noticed,
Sampson's Spiritualism Tested,
Saybrook Impost, Palfrey's account
of it, examined by L. Bacon, 1022
Schools, Common and the English
Language, by J. W. Gibbs, Art., 429
Scientific American, noticed,
Scientific Discovery, Wells's Annual
of, noticed,
Scott, (Leonard,) Reprints of the
English Reviews, noticed,
Secker, Nonsuch Professor, noticed, 511
Self-Help, by Smiles, noticed, 546
Sermons, by C. Kingsley, The Good
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the Boundaries of Another
World, noticed,
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THE

NEW ENGLANDER.

No. LXIX.

FEBRUARY, 1860.

ARTICLE I.-MR. TENNYSON AND THE IDYLS OF KING

ARTHUR.

Idyls of the King. By ALFRED TENNYSON, D. C. L., Poet Laureate. Boston: Ticknor & Fields.

1859.

JOHN MILTON, When, at the age of thirty, he had left England to perfect, by travel and by experience of foreign lands, the varied education by which he had been training himself for immortality,-" pluming his wings and meditating flight," -had come at last, through France and Northern Italy, along the coast of the blue Mediterranean to Naples. Here he lingered among the charming scenes of that Italian landscape, rich in natural beauty and not less rich in historic memories. Here he mused over the tomb of Virgil, and as he looked about him or glanced off to seaward, his eyes, as yet not sightless, rested on many an object which had been made immortal by ancient fable or by classic verse. Here too he was the guest of the noble Manso, himself a man of letters and a poet, but more famous as the friend, protector, and biographer of Tasso, and as the patron of the more recent but less worthy

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poet Marini.
Doubtless, in the weeks that Milton spent
surrounded by such scenes and in such companionship, there
was much talk and meditation of the poets, ancient and
modern, whose names and memory were so associated with the
place, and more especially of the tales of chivalry and romance,
which lived in the verse of Tasso. Thus it was that the young
English poet was led to speak about the ancient tales of
British chivalry, and to tell the polite and appreciating Italian
the mythic story which, centuries before, the romance writers
had begun to fabricate, the story of Arthur and his noble
knights, of Arthur and the battles that he fought for Christ
and Britain. And here it was, most probably, (as indeed his
biographer has suggested,)* that the plan of writing a great epic
poem, upon which until now he had meditated vaguely, be-
gan to take definite shape in his mind, and to be freely spoken
of in his intercourse with his friends. He would sing of
Arthur and the British kings who fought the Saxons, and
would make the valor and the faith of those old warriors to
live again in his enduring verse. Such was the plan which
he then hoped to accomplish. The hope grew upon him.
while he stayed in Italy, and, when he was suddenly summon-
ed home again, he expresses it distinctly in his parting epistle
to Manso :

"Indigenas revocabo in carmina reges,
Arturumque etiam sub terris bella moventem!
Aut dicam invictæ sociali fædere mensæ
Magnanimos heroas."

He carried his design with him back to England, and we find him still cherishing it in the elegant elegiac poem which he wrote soon after his return, on hearing of the death of his friend Deodati. In the mythic history of Britain, in the story of the crafty maneuvering of Merlin, of the betrayal of the fair Igrayne, the birth of Arthur and the wars and treachery that followed,-was to be found the subject for his promised epic. Only it is noticeable that now, in the gravity of his maturing manhood, and chastened by the bereavement which he

* See Toland's Life of Milton, (London ed. of 1761.) page 14-17.

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