The orthodox clergyman, the orthodox physician, and orthodox matrimony--all these alike represent social bondage in different forms, and he will have none of them So he starts on a career of 'unchartered freedom' 'To prove that _he alone was king of him,_' and the last scene of all represents him the weak slave of his mistress, a quack doctor, and a revivalist--'which things are an allegory.'" The quotation shows that Crabbe, neglected by the readers of poetry to-day, is still cherished by the psychologist and divine.

It is to the "graver mind" rather than to the "lighter heart" that he oftenest appeals.

Newman, to mention no small names, found Crabbe's pathos and fidelity to Human Nature even more attractive to him in advanced years than in youth.

There is indeed much in common between Crabbe's treatment of life and its problems, and Newman's.

Both may be called "stern" portrayers of human nature, not only as intended in Byron's famous line, but in Wordsworth's use of the epithet when he invoked Duty as the "stern Daughter of the voice of God." A kindred lesson to that drawn by Canon Gore from _The Gentleman Farmer_ is taught in the yet grimmer Tale of _Edward Shore_.