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THE BIBLIOGRAPHY
[1864-

and "Experiments of Classic Metres in Quantity," with Specimen of a Blank Verse Translation from the Iliad of Homer (but minus the "Hexameters and Pentameters"), which had appeared, between 1859 and 1863, either in a separate form or in the magazines and publications already indicated.

Inscription of four lines of verse for the Mausoleum of the Duchess of Kent. Court Journal, and other newspapers, 1864.


1865.

A Selection from the Works of Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate (Moxon's Miniature Poets). London: Edward Moxon and Co., 1865, cloth gilt, square 12mo., with red border lines enclosing text, and portrait of the author, pp. 256.

Contains some original poems previously unpublished, viz.: "The Captain, a Legend of the Navy;" "On a Mourner;" "Three Sonnets to a Coquette;" besides variations of two of the Songs in "The Princess." In this volume two new lines were inserted or added towards the end of the poem entitled "The Vision of Sin," which do not appear in any of the earlier, or reappear in any of the later editions of the volume containing that poem. The couplet or reading in question seems to be peculiar to this volume, as if the after-