Show SOUGHT TO CONVERT POET brother of tennyson would have had H m jo n sp lists the world might have lost some ot ts choicest poetry had a certain spir had his way it was freder ick tennyson who was so impressed by spirit rapping that his head had become as much turned as the table whose used to delight him he desired his brother the poet laur bate to give up everything to kropa gate sp ritualism frederick told the old story of an un girl made to play music by invisible influence and bf a stout old gentleman who was suddenly picked up and whizzed gh the thickness of solid walls all in a moment to be found in a court ard of a house a mile and a half distant whose gates were closed and locked the poet did believe there aas something in spiritualism there ia a remarkable letter of bis to queen victoria on the subject but he could net swallow the story of the tat old gentleman s travels so he contented himself with poetry and let spiritual is alone |