A parody of the "Lord of Burleigh" appeared in _Figaro_, January 22, 1873, and one entitled "A Welcome to Alexandra (Palace)" in _Funny Folks_, May 18, 1875. The Poet Laureate has recently contributed a poem, entitled _Early Spring_, to an American paper. It consisted of eight verses, and the fee paid the writer was said to be 1,000 dollars. Taking the following as a fair example of the rest, it would seem that 125 dollars per verse was a very liberal remuneration:-- Opens a door in Heaven; From skies of glass A Jacob's ladder falls On greening grass, And o'er the mountain-walls Young angels pass. * * * * * Has the Poet no friends about him who can point out that by the publication of such painfully weak effusions, the once great reputation of Tennyson is being surely, if slowly, undermined; and that the rising generation will be little encouraged, by such specimens of his genius, to read his early works. It is well known that the Poet Laureate is exceedingly vain of his writings, and does not hesitate to place them on a par with those of Milton; this is a point we may leave to posterity to decide, but it seems most improbable that even the finest works of the laurelled, pensioned, titled bard of our days, will ever be considered worthy of a place by the side of the glorious and imperishable poems of the stern old puritan. As parodies of Tennyson's poems are constantly being produced, a supplementary collection of them will be published separately at some future date. * * * * * MR. CHARLES STEWART CALVERLEY. The death of "C. S. C." will be heard of with regret by all who enjoy the lighter forms of English poetry, such as are to be found to perfection in his two little volumes, entitled "Fly Leaves" and "Verses and Translations," published by Messrs. G. Bell and Sons.