[Illustration: ALFRED TENNYSON _Photograph by The London Stereoscopic Co._] TENNYSON BY G. K. CHESTERTON AND DR. RICHARD GARNETT, C.B. WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS NEW YORK JAMES POTT AND COMPANY LONDON HODDER AND STOUGHTON PRINTED BY HAZELL, WATSON AND VINEY, LD. LONDON AND AYLESBURY ENGLAND. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE ALFRED TENNYSON _Frontispiece_ THE BROOK AT SOMERSBY 1 AN EARLY PORTRAIT OF TENNYSON 2 SOMERSBY RECTORY, LINCOLNSHIRE (where Alfred Tennyson was born) 3 LOUTH 4 SOMERSBY CHURCH 4 ALFRED TENNYSON (from the painting by Samuel Laurence) 5 TENNYSON’S MOTHER 6 BAG ENDERBY CHURCH 6 ALFRED TENNYSON, 1838 7 OLD GRAMMAR SCHOOL, LOUTH 7 ARTHUR H. HALLAM (from the bust by Chantrey) 8 ALFRED TENNYSON (from the medallion by Thomas Woolner, R.A.) 9 THE LADY OF SHALOTT 10 THE PALACE OF ART 11 ALFRED TENNYSON (from the bust by Thomas Woolner, R.A.) 12 MARIANA IN THE SOUTH 13 STOCKWORTH MILL 14 CLEVEDON CHURCH 14 GERAINT AND EDYRN 15 IN MEMORIAM (“Man dies: nor is there hope in dust”) 16 IN MEMORIAM (“Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky”) 17 LADY TENNYSON 18 HORNCASTLE (the home of Emily Sellwood) 19 GRASBY CHURCH 20 CHAPEL HOUSE, TWICKENHAM (Tennyson’s first home after his marriage) 20 ELAINE 21 ALFRED TENNYSON (1867) 22 ALFRED TENNYSON (from a portrait by G. F. Watts, R.A., 1859) 23