Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1903 — Taking Away From the Subject. [ARTICLE]

Taking Away From the Subject.

When Frederick Robertson of Brighton, the great preacher who had written much about Tennyson’s poems and for whom the poet had a high regard, first called upon him, “I felt,” said Tennyson, “as if he had come to pluck out the heart of my mystery, so I talked to him about nothing but beer.”