Birthday_ (p. 435), previously printed in the 1834 edition, variants have been supplied from the Duke’s transcripts. Of the _Miscellaneous Verses previously printed_ reprinted in the present volume the two _Poetical Epistles_ (April, 1780) are, by the kind permission of Mr Buxton-Forman, owner of the MSS., and of Dr W. Robertson Nicoll and Mr T. J. Wise, editors of _Literary Anecdotes of the Nineteenth Century_ (1896), and of Messrs Hodder and Stoughton, reproduced at length from Vol. II of that work. Ten lines from the _Epistle to Mira_ had already been printed in Vol. I (p. 67) from the _Life_ (p. 58) in Vol. I of the 1834 edition. From this edition also come, with the exception of the last but two and the last, all the remaining shorter pieces already published (some with variants, duly noted, from the University Press and Belvoir MSS., from the MSS. of Mrs Mackay, and from an article entitled _Treasure Trove_ contributed by Miss M. Jourdain to _The Book Monthly_ for May, 1906). This article, of which Miss Jourdain and her publishers (Messrs Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.) kindly allowed me to make use, consists of pieces printed from transcripts made at Belvoir Castle. In Miss Jourdain’s article is included stanza v of _The Friend in Love_ (p. 437), which is missing in the stanzas given in the _Life_ (1834). A few variants in this version have been duly noted. I may add that between _The World of Dreams_ and _Sir Eustace Grey_ which in metre and otherwise are so closely associated with one another, no actual parallelisms either of sense or of form are noticeable. The exceptions referred to are the following. _The Lines_ (_Edinburgh, August 15, 1822_) (p. 440) are printed, without variants, from a separately printed leaflet in my possession: and the _Lines addressed to the Dowager Duchess of Rutland_ (p. 441) from _The Casket_ (1829), with variants from Miss Jourdain’s article in _The Book Monthly_. _Of the Poems hitherto unpublished_ a list giving the source of each will be found at the close of the Bibliography in this volume. In the general sequence of these pieces I have so far as possible adopted a chronological order; the whole body of previously unpublished verse has however been divided into two groups—viz. tales and fragments of tales, and lyrical pieces; and, where there was no indication of date, the poems taken from the same collection of MSS. have been kept together. It remains for me to return my sincere thanks to the possessors of Crabbe MSS. already mentioned, and to others who have in various ways aided me in making this concluding volume of Crabbe’s _Poems_, and therewith the edition as a whole, as complete as possible. I should like, in especial, to thank Professor MORFILL of Oxford for enriching the Bibliography at the close of this volume by enabling us to refer to two works which attest the very curious and significant fact of the interest in Crabbe taken in Russia.