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Literary Honours, in praise of Tennyson's elevation to the House of Lords, and showing how in every age all nations except our own have given honours to authors, literally
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elicited plenty both of approval and of censure from journals of many denominations. As a matter inevitable when Baron Tennyson was gazetted, the less euphonious Tupper was stigmatised in the papers as desiring to be a Baron too,--at all events, the _Echo_ said so, and the _Globe_ good-humouredly observed that
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They little knew that in the summer of 1863 (as paragraphs in my tenth volume of
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Archives are now before me to show) the same derided scribe was seriously announced as
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all over England and America: see two available and respectable proofs in the _British Controversialist_ (Houlston & Wright) for July 1863, p. 79,--and Bryant's _Evening Post_ for September 17, 1863. I name these, as the reverse of comic papers,--and publishing what they supposed true, as in fact was told me by the editors when inquired of. At the time I repudiated the false rumour openly;--with all the greater readiness, inasmuch as I dispute both the justice of hereditary honour and the wisdom of hereditary legislation; to say less of the