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...habit of marking library books. We would go a little farther, and condemn that of marking even one's own, for this reason: book-marking is like dram-drinking and only total abstinence can safely guard us against excess. Anybody who has seen a young lady's copy of Tennyson, and searched in vain for an unmarked page, will recognize the evils of indulgence. Of course when it comes to marking other people's books, the injury is moral as well as mental...
HERE are the titles of some recent articles in our exchanges: "The Cynicism of Culture," "The Influence of Doubt," "Tennyson's In Memoriam, "Tennyson's Sorrow," The Superstition of Composition," "Music among the Greeks," "Jeremy Taylor," "The Character of Banquo," and "Carlyle's Sartor Resartus." Our readers may form their judgment by these: "ex pede Herculem...
which, in Tennyson...
...also interesting to notice that in Malory's history the legend seems tinged with the Greek idea of fate and of slowly coming retribution. Malory's Arthur is not the spotless knight of Tennyson, but one who has committed a deadly crime, the punishment for which and for the sins of his knights is gradually being developed...
...LIONEL TENNYSON, eldest son of the poet, passed at Cambridge University as first-class in mechanics and theology...