In 1817 Crabbe went up to London again. He at once became a member of the brilliant group which Rogers loved to gather around him and he must often have compared in his own mind the company assembled at Rogers' breakfast table with that which he hal met at the table of Burke and Reynolds thirty years before. He passed at a bound from the atmosphere of 'the club', from Johnson Burke, Reynolds, Langton and Boswell, to Byron, Moore, Scott, Campbell, and Canning."(1) The Library and the Village came to a public which knew no other great poet, but the Borough entered the lists with Marmion, Childe Harold, Cristabel, the Excursion and Endymion.

Crabbe was received with as much warmth by these ninteenth century men as he had been by Dr Jonson and his followers. He really stands for the end of one school and the beginning of another. His style is that of Dryden and Pope, he deals with man and nature after the manner of the Lake School, he has also the accuracy and minuteness of the Pre-Raphaelites.

(1)Kebbel p. 86.

We are even more astonished at Crabbe's indiffer

ence when we consider the changes that had been wrought his

in England by the time of Grabbe's second appearance in London as a literary character, than we were when we first met him here. The England Crabbe knew in 1780 was an England not yet conscious of itself. It was not modern England. The French Revoluuion shook the country to its very depths. At first terror led the government to repress all reform movements but when that had passed they broke out with renewed vigor. Public meetings were held all over England and men of every class seemed to be waking up to the needs of the time. The Spinning Jenny and all the inventions what followed in its train had revolutionized the industrial life of the people. In 1785 Stevenson invented the steam engine, when one thinks of that one fact alone he realizes what a period of transformation Crabbe lived though. The question of a reform bill was agitated and men began to think of measures for alleviating the suffering of women and