The review of _Madoc_ reprinted from the _Monthly Rev._, XLVIII (113-122) for October, 1805, was written in the old style then fast giving way to the sprightlier methods of the _Edinburgh_. Here we find a style abounding in literary allusions and classical quotations, and evincing a generally patronizing attitude toward the author under discussion. Most readers will agree with the sentiments expressed by the reviewer, who succeeded in making his article interesting without descending to the depths of buffoonery. No apology is necessary for the excision of the reviewer's unreasonably long extracts from the poem. _Madoc_ was also reviewed at great length in the _Edinburgh Review_ by Francis Jeffrey. 61. _Ille ego, qui quondam, etc._ The lines usually prefixed to the _Æneid_. 61. _Prorumpere in medias res_. Cf. Horace, _Ars Poetica_, l. 148. 61. _Macklin's Tragedy_. _Henry VII_ (1746), his only tragedy, and a failure. 61. _Toto carere possum_. Cf. Martial, _Epig._ XI, 56. 61. _Camoëns_. The author of the Portuguese _Lusiad_ (1572) which narrates the adventures of Vasco da Gama. 62. _Milton_. Quoted from Sonnet XI.--_On the Detraction which followed upon my writing certain Treatises_. 63. _Snatching a grace, etc._ Pope's _Essay on Criticism_, l. 153. CHARLES LAMB Most of Lamb's earlier poetical productions appeared in conjunction with the work of other poets. Four of his sonnets were printed with Coleridge's _Poems on Various Subjects_ (1796), and he was more fully represented in _Poems by S.T. Coleridge. Second Edition_. _To which are now added Poems by Charles Lamb and Charles Lloyd_ (1797). In the following year appeared _Blank Verse_, by Charles Lloyd and Charles Lamb. For new and interesting material concerning the three poets, see E.V. Lucas' _Charles Lamb and the Lloyds_ (1899). Lloyd (1775-1839) wrote melancholy verses and a sentimental, epistolary novel _Edmund Oliver_, but nothing of permanent value. However, in 1798, he was almost as well known as Coleridge, and was hailed in some quarters as a promising poet. The _Monthly Rev._, XXVII, n.s. (104-105), in September, 1798, published the critique of _Blank Verse_ which is here reprinted. Its principal interest lies in the scant attention shown to Lamb, although the volume contained his best poem--the tender _Old Familiar Faces_. Dr. Johnson's characterization of blank-verse as "poetry to the eye" will be found at the end of his _Life of Milton_ as a quotation from "an ingenious critic." Lamb's drama, _John Woodvil_ (1802), written in imitation of later Elizabethan models, was a failure. It was unfavorably noticed in the _Monthly Rev._, XL, n.s., p. 442 and at greater length in the _Edinburgh Rev._, II, p. 90 ff.