Referring to Farringford in his invitation to Maurice, Tennyson wrote-- Where far from noise and smoke of town I watch the twilight falling brown All round a careless order’d garden, Close to the ridge of a noble down. The ridge of the down in question constituted the poet’s favourite walk, and [Sidenote: =Freshwater Bay= _see page 30_] the scenery which he encountered round Freshwater Bay might well have been represented in the opening verse of “Enoch Arden”-- Long lines of cliff breaking have left a chasm; And in the chasm are foam and yellow sands. [Sidenote: =Freshwater Village= _see page 30_] Inland the road leads to the little village of Freshwater, in which the erection of a number of new houses evoked from the poet the lines-- Yonder lies our young sea-village--Art and Grace are less and less: Science grows and Beauty dwindles--roofs of slated hideousness! [Sidenote: =Alfred Tennyson= _see pages 22 and 26_] Opposite these villas stands an ivy-clad house at that time occupied by Mrs. Julia Cameron, the celebrated lady art-photographer, two of whose effective portraits of Tennyson appear on pages 22 and 26. [Sidenote: =“The Idylls of the King”= _see pages 15, 21, 27, 31_] [Sidenote: =Aldworth= _see page 33_] In the autumn of 1859, “The Idylls of the King” were first issued in their original form, being four in number: Enid, Vivien, Elaine, and Guinevere, and from their publication until the end of Tennyson’s life his fame and popularity continued without a check. During the next few years the poet spent much time in travelling, but in 1868 he laid the foundation-stone of a new residence, named Aldworth, about two miles from Haslemere, which became his second home-- You came, and look’d and loved the view Long-known and loved by me, Green Sussex fading into blue, With one grey glimpse of sea. [Sidenote: =Tennyson’s Lane= _see page 33_] On the way from Haslemere to Aldworth, it is necessary to cross a rough common covered with whin bushes to reach the long winding lane which was named Tennyson’s Lane. This was the poet’s favourite walk when living in the neighbourhood. [Sidenote: =Tennyson’s Memorial, Beacon Hill, Freshwater= _see page 34_] Tennyson died on Thursday, October 6th, 1892, and was buried in the Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey, next to Robert Browning, and near the Chaucer monument. Against the pillar close by the grave has been placed Woolner’s well-known bust. The monument erected to the memory of the poet on Beacon Hill, near Freshwater, was unveiled by the Dean of Westminster on August 6th, 1897. [Sidenote: =Alfred Tennyson (from the painting by Samuel Laurence)= _see page 5_]