An engraving by Finden from Phillips's portrait of the poet was prefixed to the last volume, and each volume contained frontispieces and vignettes from drawings by Clarkson Stanfield of scenery or buildings connected with Crabbe's various residences in Suffolk and the Yale of Belvoir.

The volumes were ably edited; the editor's notes, together with, quotations from Crabbe's earliest critics in the _Edinburgh_ and _Quarterly Reviews_, were interesting and informing, and the illustrations happily chosen.

But it is not so easy to acquiesce in an editorial decision on a more important matter.

The eighth volume is occupied by a selection from the Tales left in manuscript by Crabbe, to which reference has already been made.

The son, whose criticisms of his father are generally sound, evidently had misgivings concerning these from the first.