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1830.] poet in his ensuing volume of 1832, 1833. It was also reviewed by Arthur Henry Hallam in the brief-lived Englishman's Magazine, published by Edward Moxon in 1831: of this interesting notice only a small portion is reprinted in Arthur Hallam's Remains.

Copies of "Poems, Chiefly Lyrical," in the original boards and in good condition, are now increasingly rare, and command a high price. Two exceptionally interesting copies have come under my observation. The first was an uncut copy bearing on the title-page the neat and minute autograph of Robert Southey. On a fly-leaf belonging to, or attached, to the volume, was written in the author's autograph the draught of an original unpublished sonnet on Cambridge, which has since seen the light in the second edition of "Tennysoniana," in Notes and Queries, and elsewhere. This copy was preserved in the Dyce Collection at South Kensington, The other copy, accompanied by the later volume of 1832-1833, and the privately-printed "Lover's Tale," was not an uncut or specially wellbound copy, but contained, like its companion volumes, autograph notes and corrections in the Poet's handwriting, made in the year 1835, on the visit to Cambridge recorded in "In Memoriam," when the poet was the guest of the owner of these volumes, the Rev. W. H. Thompson, afterwards Master of Trinity College, at the sale of whose Library in 1857 these three volumes were disposed of in separate lots, and brought extremely advanced prices. An ordinary copy, perfect in the original boards, or artistically bound from