Show THE LAUREATES SALARY A hundred founds pounds a year about the amount tennyson receives there has been considerable discua discus eion mon in in some of our journals recently as to who will be lord Tenny sons successor tuc ceasor as pact laureate laur tata As the laureate is at present in good health and spirits Bp irita the discussion discus eion seems not 0 only premature but somewhat discourteous says a writer in the hook book buyer it is to be hoped it vi will ill be a long while before it will be to appoint any successor for there appears to he no one fit to step into the ehrea of tennyson of course evey one has his favorite poet and every one thinks his favorite the only one to wear the laurel crown there is after titer all little hut but honor connected connected vi nith ith the it is an ancient office considerably over COO GOO years apo ago in the reign of henry III the kinds king a versifier was pad pa d an caully raully and I 1 do not suppose this officer occupied a higher position than t an the kings fool did those days james the first paid his laureate IW marks a year and charles the I 1 I 1 increased nere aged the salary to 1100 nith ith one tierce of canary spanish wine to be taken out of the kinds kings store of wine vine yearly the remuneration of the laureate hag has remained the same ever cioce hut but I 1 am not clear whet whether her lord tenn son still draws a tierce of wine nine annu annually aliv from the cellar at winegar castle 1 I should think in all probability he received the money value for it the laureate is 18 expected to sing to order in the present day it if he were his salary is terribly insufficient it must be borne in mind that a year in the days of rif charles I 1 haq vaia a very different thins thing to a year in 1890 why an industrious versifier ve Biner could easily make that sum by contributing to the journals jour nala and magazines of the daiy diy however it ia Is an are tor for th the e mis abolishment balent 0 of ancient offices ol 01 old d cuto cu komg m s and venerable venerable institutions and arid I 1 e should bould not be ba at all surprised if 11 hen ben lord tennyson has done with the tile post it should be abolished |