The very miscellaneous nature of the contents ofthis third and last volume of the present editionof Crabbe’s Poems obliges me to trouble the reader witha rather lengthy series of prefatory remarks. Before,however, entering on these, I should like to supplementwhat was said in the Preface to Vol. 1 with regard tothe source of the earliest among the Juvenilia thereprinted. Since writing that Preface I have at last hadan opportunity of examining the whole set of Vols. I-VI(for the years 1770–5) of the elusive Lady’s Magazine,of which Vol. I was published by Robinson and Roberts,and the remaining five volumes by Robinson. Curiouslyenough, the 1773 volume of this Magazine contains, inthe February number, a long piece of verse, apparentlya prize poem, entitled An Essay on Hope; but the sixlines quoted by the younger Crabbe are not to be foundin this poem any more than in that printed in theOctober number of the 1772 volume of the Magazine.By another coincidence, a poem called The Bee, signed“Louisa Broughton,” appears in the April number ofthe same Magazine

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