note, not signed "G.C.," and therefore FitzGerald's own.

It runs thus: "It" (the opium) "probably influenced his dreams, for better or worse" To this FitzGerald significantly adds, "see also the _World of Dreams_, and _Sir Eustace Grey_." As Crabbe is practically unknown to the readers of the present day, _Sir Eustace Grey_ will be hardly even a name to them.

For it lies, with two or three other noticeable poems, quite out of the familiar track of his narrative verse.

In the first place it is in stanzas, and what Browning would have classed as a "Dramatic Lyric." The subject is as follows: The scene "a Madhouse," and the persons a Visitor, a Physician, and a Patient.

The visitor has been shown over the establishment, and is on the point of departing weary and depressed at the sight of so much misery, when the physician begs him to stay as they come in sight of the "cell" of a specially interesting patient, Sir Eustace Grey, late of Greyling Hall.