THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM―― “It was a summer evening” 163 Notes on the Poem, 163 A Battle with Billingsgate. G. Cruikshank’s Comic Almanac 164 A Seasonable Gossip. The Puppet Show, 1848 164 The Battle of Jobbing. Diogenes, 1853 164 The Battle of Berlin. Funny Folks, 1878 165 Children at the Pantomime. _F. B. Doveton_. The World, 1880 165 Another Parody on the same topic. _A. Salter_ 165 The Battle of Brummagem. _William Bates_ 166 A Famous Holiday. Punch, 1880 166 A Glorious Victory (in Cricket). Punch, 1882 167 A Famous Victory (in Egypt). Clapham Free Press, 1884 168 The Battle of Blenheim House. Birmingham Daily Mail, 1885 168 The old Gladstonite and his Son. Morning Post 169 The Jackanape Jock, Cribblings from the Poets 169 SOUTHEY’S EARLY POLITICAL POEMS 170 BOB SOUTHEY! you’re a poet 171 The Anti-Jacobin Review 171 INSCRIPTION――Henry Marten, the Regicide 171 Inscription――Mrs. Brownrigg, the Prentice-cide 172 THE WIDOW. (Southey’s Sapphics) “Cold was the night-wind” 172 The Friend of Humanity, and the Knife Grinder 172 The Friend of Humanity, and the Bricklayer’s Labourer. John Bull, 1827 173 Sapphics of the Cabstand. Punch, 1853 173 Lay of the Proctor. The Shotover Papers, 1874 174 The Friend of Humanity, and Seafaring Person. Punch, 1874 174 The Friend of Humanity, and John Bull. Funny Folks, 1878 174 The Friend of Agriculture, and the needy new Voter. Punch, 1886 174 THE SOLDIER’S WIFE. Dactylics, 1795 175 The Soldier’s Friend. (Canning’s Contrast.) 175 The Soldier’s Wife. Imitation Dactylics 175 SOUTHEY’S OFFICIAL POEMS 176 The Curse of the Laureate. _James Hogg_ 176