other miscellaneous matter; besides the verses on _Miss Waldron’s Birthday_ (p. 502), and some partially illegible and quite incoherent fragments. A third, small, MS. book (U.P.), of which the writing is throughout remarkably clear, and which has few variants from the text of the 1834 edition, contains, together with fifteen of the _Posthumous Tales_, _The Funeral of the Squire_, obviously designed as one of this series, and now printed for the first time (p. 489). There is nothing in this book that has not been previously printed except _The Funeral_. A fourth, small, MS. book (U.P.) contains, together with some fragments of _Tales of the Hall_, Bks. VII and XI, of which the variants have been noted in Vol. II of this edition, and a version of the lines _On the Death of Sir Samuel Romilly_ (p. 439), the stanzas entitled _Matilda_ (p. 516). A number of pages in pencil have been unavoidably disregarded. In the same little book are a few fragmentary lines, hitherto unprinted, that must originally have been intended to form part of the _Tales of the Hall_ (p. 473). A fifth, also small, MS. book (U.P.) contains, besides a catalogue of Crabbe’s library at Trowbridge, and a few accounts, the two short pieces printed in the present volume under the titles _Momentary Grief_ (p. 507) and _Enigma_ (_Sovereign_) (p. 515). A number of pages at the end of this volume have been cut out. Through the kind offices of the Vice-Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, Mr W. Aldis Wright, I was allowed to examine a MS. volume in the Trinity Library (T.C.) which bears the following inscription: “This volume, which formerly belonged to Crabbe the poet was given to the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, by Edward FitzGerald, M.A., April, 1871.” The obverse of the volume contains a list of Plants, beginning with _Cryptogamia_. On a fly-leaf are written, in a tremulous hand (probably Crabbe’s), the lines which I have entitled _A Fragment_ (p. 497). Then follow, in Crabbe’s ordinary writing, the lines printed in the present volume under the title of _Poverty and Love_ (_ib._); and towards the end of the book, are, in Crabbe’s handwriting, the lines here called _The Curate’s Progress_ (_ib._). The reverse of this MS. book, which is on the cover very neatly dated September 23, 1793, contains, besides another shorter list of plants and much miscellaneous matter, a scribbled page of verse, from which I was only able to extract the following entire couplet: “The Sum on Dress by this fair Creature spent Would more than equal Colin’s yearly rent.”