Mind, 513 1060 - 168 167 1053 - 473 1065 832 1102 1129 145 711 942 Mission Work;-Home Heathen McCosh's Intuitions of the Messianic Prophecy and the Life Methodist Quarterly, strictures on Mid-Day Thoughts for the Weary, Milburn's Pioneers and Preachers, Miller, (Hugh,) Davies' answer to, - 836 Phelps, (Austin,) The Still Hour, 219 248 Mitchell, (D. G.) Hints about Farm- 899 Philosophy, Intellectual, Champlin, - 814 . 818 Philosophy, Vocabulary of, Flem- - 1072 Prenticeana, noticed, Presbyterian Church in Ireland, Sermons, F. D. Huntington's, re- 582 Physics, by B. Silliman, Jr, noticed, 1115 | Sermons, by Dr. Emmons, noticed, 221, 485 Preachers and Preaching, Murray, Sermons, Farrar's Science in Theol- - 799 223 Sermons, Fuller's, noticed, - 807 510 viewed by W. I. Budington, - 190 noticed, Sermons, Spurgeon, noticed, Sermons, Trinitarian, preached to a Servitude, Hebrew, Art.. Shakespeare, (H.) Wild Sports of - Shakespeare, Religious extracts 1119 1120 Sherman, (H.)Governmental History 250 535 1065 Sidney, Miscellaneous writtings of Sin Original, state of the question, - 694 Sir Rohan's Ghost, noticed, 552 - 1123 1153 277 Slavery among the Hebrews, Arti- 441 Robertson's Sermons on Corinthi- Slave Trade, Reopening of the Afri- - 90 Samaritan, Diary of, noticed, Smiles, Self-Help, noticed, . 216 Spiritualism, Owen's Foot Falls on . 271 . 381 548 223 - 307 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 poet Marini. "Indigenas revocabo in carmina reges, 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. |