Show Tennysons Bearlshness Mr It H Sherard comes to the defense de-fense of Mr Benson who was recently attacked because he said that Tennyson Tenny-son was not a man of agreeable manners man-ners Mr Sherard declares that Mr Benson only wrote what was true lIe says In The Bookman that like most men who have studied closely the human hu-man heart Lord Tennyson was a rnln unthrope and he then goes on to relate re-late some personal reminiscences of his mother who as Miss Wordsworth and with Mrs afterward Lady Taylor Tay-lor visited the Laureate at a house In Twickenham forty years ago The Taylors Mr Sherard relates knew the Tcnnysons and Mrs Taylor had taken Miss Wordsworth to see the then new laureate The poet who did not appear till he was sent fpr came into the room we are told looking very gloomy and only spoke in monosyllables mono-syllables Mrs Taylor rallied him on his moroseness One would say Mr Tennyson she said that you were not pleased to see us I dont think you would be pleased to see visitors cried Tennyson If you hired the Times for an hour a day and the visitors Just came during that hour When told by MIs Taylor that he never visited vis-ited his friends he replied morosely Its all very well for you to talk You have only to order your hoises to be put In and drive over here When I come to see you I have tngo to the expense of a cab or a railway ticket lie afterward left the room Of Miss Wordsworth the poet had taken no notice and she was very much abashed But Mrs Tennyson who had noticed what had taken place went and sat by her and spoke kindly Mr Tennyson was not well she said ho suffered from biliousness and his manners man-ners that day meant nothing She was sorry that she had come just that day because when Tennypon was In good humor ho was delightful Klmma tho chief of the IJtcluiaims Is In England and has inrule a very favorable fa-vorable iniprcfiKlon on public opinion He Is a mUll of great IntclllKencd and tlotcr mlimtlon and a native ruler of exceptional exception-al capacity Ills story of the drink tiat lie In Dccliuaiuiland l Is specially I Instructive Instruc-tive The consumption of upliltu WHO nb Hohitely prohibited but It was found necessary ne-cessary to allow tho natives to brew their own beer Klmina will have no rum In his country and that la u resolve In which ho Is unstained by public opinion In Knclund without distinction of party Ono of time leading stamp collectors tit the duy Is J II MOOIIH oC Uruvudla Ho Is said to luivo spent 10000 on thIs hobby Tim Pultun of Lahore In according to an Italian paper about to visit Iurl bringing with him a bicycle of mire gold set with prcdmiu HIOIHB |