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ame to see him during these years. To these friends heused to read, with naive pleasure and approval of his ownwork, “Maud,” or ‘“‘Guinevere,”’ or ‘‘The Northern Farmer,”but chiefly “Maud.” “Come and let me read you Maud,”he said to Fields; “you'll never forget it.” In 1884, he wasmade Baron of Aldworth and Farringford. The last seven years of his life were remarkable for physi-cal and literary activity. He could outwalk the youngpeople, and he published three volumes of poems, “‘Tiresias,”’dedicated to his “good friend,” Robert Browning, “LocksleyHall Sixty Years After,” and, in 1889, ‘‘ Demeter and OtherPoems.” In 1892, he was correcting the proofs of anothervolume, containing ‘“The Death of Ginone” and “Akbar’sDream,” but he did not live to see it in book form. Hedied, after a comparatively brief illness, on the sixth ofOctober, 1892. To the music of the singing of two of hisown poems, “Silent Voices” and ‘‘Crossing the Bar,”he was buried, on the twelfth of October, in WestminsterAbbey. As sources for the “Idylls of the King,” Tennyson wentchiefly to Malory’s “Le Morte d’Arthur” and the “Mab-inogion”; he knew also Nennius, Gildas, and Geoffreyof Monmouth, as well as some of the romances, French andEnglish. These sources he has handled very freely. Hesays to the Queen that he is not presenting to her that gray king, whose name, a ghost, Streams like a cloud, man-shaped, from mountain peak,
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