printed the fragment _Joseph and Charles_ (p. 492), with which should be compared Vol. VIII, pp. 63 sq. of the edition of 1834, and indeed the whole tale of _The Family of Love_. It also contains a draft of _The Equal Marriage_ (_Posthumous Tales_, III), with a few variants, noted among those printed at the end of the present volume; also a draft of _Silford Hall_ (_Posthumous Tales_, I), with a considerable number of variants, of which the chief have been noted in the same place. There are also to be found here drafts of _Lines written at Warwick_ (p. 428), and of the lines _On a Drawing of the Elm Tree_ (p. 431), &c., there stated to be by Miss Chilibeen(?), both with variants. Finally, the same MS. book contains the lines which I have entitled _Rest in the Lord_ (p. 523) and the unfinished lines _And He said unto her, “Thy Sins are forgiven”_ (p. 524). On the fly-leaf of a second Crabbe MS. book in the possession of the Cambridge University Press (U.P.) is written: “This MS. is by the Poet Crabbe and in his autograph. It is one of his Memorandum Books.” This book begins with three pages of almost illegible verse, which appear to contain an earlier draft of a portion of what follows. Then ensues the long MS. entitled _Tracy_, to which is prefixed, in Crabbe’s own handwriting, the date “1 Jan. 1813,” and which is interrupted at intervals by further illegible passages. On pp. “18–19” of this MS. book there is an account, only in part legible, of the beginning of the Lady’s Vision, which is continued in the portion printed in the present volume (from p. 450). The lines beginning “The good are happy,” appear to form no part of _Tracy_, though they have been inserted in the middle of it, and are therefore here printed as a separate piece, to which I have given the title _Conscious Guiltiness_ (p. 498). The verses superscribed _Jane Adair_, which are similarly inserted in the text of _Tracy_, are likewise printed separately (p. 512), as are also those which I have respectively called _Horatio_ (p. 513), _Jacob and Rachel_ (p. 514), _David and Saul_ (p. 515), _Belief and Unbelief_ (p. 499), and _The Task_ (p. 498). Then follows a version of the lines _On receiving from a Lady a Present of a Ring_ (p. 432); then a version of _Villars_ (_Posthumous Tales_, V); then the fragment of a tale, which I have entitled _Susan and her Lovers_ (p. 462), interspersed with some illegible passages; then another fragment of a tale, _Captain Godfrey_ (p. 468); then a further fragment, _The Amours of G[eorge]_, which is obviously an early draft, in a different metre, of a large portion of _The Elder Brother_ (_Tales of the Hall_, Bk. VII); then the _Charade_ (_Modesty_) (p. 516); then a variant of the conclusion of the tale of _Villars_ (see above); then the lines _Tragic Tales, Why?_ a fragment (p. 474). Opening this volume at the other end, we find it to contain prose-sketches of certain of the _Tales_; a criticism of Gibbon and