f his
death. The genuine interest with which these volumes were welcomed did
much to lighten the last years of a somewhat sombre and solitary life.
His posthumous poems were collected in 1902. The characteristics of De
Tabley's poetry are pre-eminently magnificence of style, derived from
close study of Milton, sonority, dignity, weight and colour. His passion
for detail was both a strength and a weakness: it lent a loving fidelity
to his description of natural objects, but it sometimes involved him in
a loss of simple effect from over-elaboration of treatment. He was
always a student of the classic poets, and drew much of his inspiration
directly from them. He was a true and a whole-hearted artist, who, as a
brother poet well said, "still climbed the clear cold altitudes of
song." His ambition was always for the heights, a region naturally
ice-bound at periods, but always a country of clear atmosphere and
bright, vivid outlines.

See an excellent sketch by E. Gosse in his _Critical Kit-Kats_ (1896).
(A. WA.)

DETAILLE, JEAN BAPTISTE EDOUARD (1848- ), French painter, was born in
Paris on the 5th of October 1848. After working as a pupil of
Meissonier's, he first exhibited, in the Salon of 1867, a picture
representing "A Corner of Meissonier's Studio." Military life was from
the first a principal attraction to the young painter, and he gained his
reputation by depicting the scenes of a soldier's life with every detail
truthfully rendered. He exhibited "A Halt" (1868); "Soldiers at rest,
during the Manoeuvres at the Camp of Saint Maur" (1869); "Engagement
between Cossacks and the Imperial Guard, 1814" (1870). The war of
1870-71 furnished him with a series of subjects which gained him
repeated successes. Among his more important pictures may be named "The
Conquerors" (1872); "The Retreat" (1873); "The Charge of the 9th
Regiment of Cuirassiers in the Village of Morsbronn, 6th August 1870"
(1874); "The Marching Regiment, Paris, December 1874" (1875); "A
Reconnaissance" (1876); "Hail to the Wounded!" (1877); "Bonaparte in
Egypt" (1878); the "Inauguration of the New Opera House"--a
water-colour; the "Defence of Champigny by Faron's Division" (1879). He
also worked with Alphonse de Neuville on the panorama of Rezonville. In
1884 he exhibited at the Salon the "Evening at Rezonville," a panoramic
study, and "The Dream" (1888), now in the Luxemburg. Detaille recor