1869. Tennyson sojourns in North Wales.

Frederick Tennyson contributes a poem to a magazine,
Grave and Gay.

1870. Tennyson takes legal proceedings against American "pirates." The Holy Grail published; 40,000 copies ordered before publication.

1871. The Last Tournament printed in the Contemporary Review. 1872. Gareth and Lynette published.

"Library edition" of Tennyson's works issued in six volumes (Strahan & Co.).

1873. Charles Tennyson-Turner publishes his last volume of

sonnets.

1874. A Welcome to the Duchess of Edinburgh published.
"Cabinet Edition" of works issued (H. S. King & Co.).
1875. QUEEN MARY PUBLISHED (H. S. King & Co.).
"Author's Edition" of works issued.

1876. Queen Mary produced at the Lyceum Theatre (April).
Tennyson again visits the Pyrenees.

1877. Harold published.

Bayard Taylor's critique of Tennyson published in the Inter-
national Review.

Lines on Sir John Franklin, and sonnet on the death of the
Rev. W. H. Brookfield published.

Victor Hugo, Introductory Sonnet, Montenegro, and Achilles
over the Trench appear in Nineteenth Century.

1878. Becket published.

The Revenge printed in Nineteenth Century (March).

Mr Lionel Tennyson marries Miss Eleanor M. B. Locker.
Studies in the Idylls by Elsdale published (H. S. King & Co.).
Tennyson spends some time in Ireland.

1879. Charles Tennyson-Turner died at Cheltenham (April 25). Tennyson writes elegy, Midnight (June 30).

The Lover's Tale re-published.

The Falcon produced at St James's Theatre (December). Tennyson proceeds against the Christian Signal for publishing some of his suppressed poems.

1880. Ballads and Poems published (Kegan Paul & Co.).

Tennyson declines to be nominated for the Lord Rectorship of Glasgow.

Charles Tennyson-Turner's Poems collected in one volume, with memoir.

1881. The Cup produced at the Lyceum Theatre.

Tennyson becomes Vice-President of the Welsh National

Eisteddfod.

1881. Despair published in the Nineteenth Century.

1882. The Charge of the Heavy Brigade published in Macmillan's Magazine (March).

Tennyson goes to Lombardy.

Tennyson meets Sir Henry Parkes.

Writes letter to Teetotalers.

Santley sings Hands all Round, music by Mrs Tennyson.
The Promise of May produced at the Globe Theatre
(November). The Marquess of Queensberry protests.
Tennyson writes letter on Plagiarism and Suggestion to Mr
S. E. Dawson (November 21).

1883. Tennyson takes sea trip with Mr Gladstone, and meets the King of Denmark, the Czar and Czarina, the King and Queen of Greece, and the Princess of Wales at Copen

hagen. By request recites several poems, including The Grandmother.

Tennyson rents a house in Lower Belgrave Street, London, and entertains distinguished company.

1884. TENNYSON IS RAISED TO THE PEERAGE AS BARON TENNYSON OF ALDWORTH (January 18).

Takes seat in the House of Lords, March 11.

The Cup and The Falcon published.

Complete Works, revised, issued.

The Hon. Hallam Tennyson marries Miss Audrey G. F.
Boyle, granddaughter of Admiral Hon. Sir Courtney
Boyle.

1885. Tiresias published.

Vastness published in Macmillan's Magazine (November). Tennyson writes to Mr Bosworth Smith on Disestablishment, which he believes would "prelude the downfall of much that is greatest and best in England."

The Hon. Lionel Tennyson writes a poem, Sympathy; the Hon. Hallam Tennyson contributes anonymously to Macmillan's Magazine a sonnet, Orange-blossom. 1886. Locksley Hall Sixty Years After published (December 14). Lionel Tennyson died at sea (April 20).

Tennyson writes Ode on Princess Beatrice's marriage (June). 1887. Mr Gladstone writes on Tennyson's Retrospect in the Nineteenth Century (January).

Tennyson publishes a Jubilee Ode in Macmillan's Magazine (April) under the title of Carmen Seculare-universally condemned.

Tennyson visits the Channel Islands.

1888. New edition of Poems, containing several at one time sup

pressed, issued in eight volumes (Macmillan).

1889. Demeter published (December 12); 20,000 copies sold in a

week.

Tennyson writes to the Times on railways (April).

His eightieth birthday commemorated (August 6).

Early MSS. sold for £250-invokes protest from the
Laureate (June).

A "Tennyson Colony" founded in South Africa by Mr.
Arnold White.

Tennyson sends greetings to Russell Lowell on his seventieth
birthday.

The Throstle published in the New Review (October).

1890. More MSS. sold (May).

Tennyson's friend, Miss Mary Boyle died.

Frederick Tennyson publishes The Isles of Greece.

1891. Tennyson is elected an honorary member of the Spalding Gentlemen's Society.

MSS. and rare volumes sold (March).

Lines To Sleep published in the New Review (March).
Swinburne writes a Birthday Ode on Tennyson (August).
Tennyson condemns the Russian persecution of the Jews
(October 1).

Mr Daly and Miss Rehan visit the Laureate (October).
Frederick Tennyson publishes Daphne and other Poems.
Tennyson revisits Devonshire.

1892. The Foresters published. Produced in New York by the Daly Company in March.

Lines on the Death of the Duke of Clarence published in

the Nineteenth Century.

TENNYSON DIED, October 6; buried in Westminster Abbey,
October 12.

The Death of Enone, Akbar's Dream, and other Poems, pub-
lished October 28.

The manuscript of Poems by Two Brothers sold for £480.

INDEX.

[Reference is not made in this index to individual poems, except
where they give their title to a volume. Nearly all the Laureate's
poems are mentioned, and will be found in the chapters chiefly in
chronological order.]

ABBREVIATIONS, Tennyson's, 278, | Ballads, Tennyson's, 204.