THE TALES OF THE HALL (1819) The _Tales of the Hall_ were published by John Murray in June 1819, in two handsome octavo volumes, with every advantage of type, paper, and margin.

In a letter of Crabbe to Mrs.Leadbeater, in October 1817, he makes reference to these Tales, already in preparation.

He tells his correspondent that "Remembrances" was the title for them proposed by his friends.

We learn from another source that a second title had been suggested, "Forty Days--a Series of Tales told at Binning Hall." Finally Mr.Murray recommended _Tales of the Hall_, and this was adopted.
In the same letter to Mrs.Leadbeater, Crabbe writes: "I know not how to describe the new, and probably (most probably) the last work I shall publish.

Though a village is the scene of meeting between my two principal characters, and gives occasion to other characters and relations in general, yet I no more describe the manners of village inhabitants.