26 JANUARY 1884, Page 25

The Works of Tennyson.—Meaare. Macmillan have issued an excellent small

edition of the Poet-laureate's works,printed like their globe editions, in wonderfully clear type, and on paper which does not show through,—though, as in every English edition, the inner margin is still left half an inch too narrow. The collection seems nearly complete, bat we regret that it should have been impossible to include the splendid lines to Virgil, in which the poet has almost surpassed himself in his command of the majesty of sound, in which English rivals Latin. A very fine portrait is prefixed, and the title. page, we are happy to see, still speaks of "Alfred Tennyson." The title is kept out of the poet's work.