Indentions to which I have alluded, and whi I consider as being at least a relief to the ey if not an assistance to the ear.

Prefixed or subjoined to the greater part the Poems, is some explanation of the su ject or occasion on which they were respe tively written, or some observation illustrati of their character or tendency.

The Ode for Music, performed at the l stallation of the Duke of Grafton as Chanc lor of the University of Cambridge, is print (to give the reader an idea of its musical a rangement) with the divisions of Air, Recit f the original Poems, of which Mr. are imitations *.

Elegy written in a Country Church re inserted, among the Notes, some originally designed as a part of the out omitted by the Author when he -d it.

With the sai earned Reader Ode, written in freuse, two Imi the latter of w ascribed to the

ng the POSTHUMOUS PIECES of Mr. the Latin Fragment on the Gaurus; h I have subjoined (for the convef the mere English Reader) a Transla

* See pp. 67, and 71.

At the end Fragments tha Mr. Gray's, which I found tions, and attr to the same A

With the same view to the ease of the u learned Reader, I have annexed to the Lat Ode, written in the Album of the Grand Cha treuse, two Imitations, in different measure the latter of which, I think, has been just ascribed to the pen of William Seward, Esq.

At the end of the Posthumous Pieces ai Fragments that have been usually publish as Mr. Gray's, I have adopted FOUR POEM which I found scattered in fugitive public tions, and attributed with much probabili to the same Author*.

* See pp. 153 to 160

espect to the NOTES, which I hope und neither superabundant nor unCily concise, they include all Mr. wn illustrations, together with relected from Mr. Mason, Mr. Scott, son, and several anonymous com5; and if these be found to have led with the necessary degree of - and discrimination, I have only to at the occasional remarks of the ill not be found useless nor imper

Insert the not which they re cumbering the If a reader has nation to refe ceeds, he can they were not deliberation, a spent to assist Tence to local are certainly r because with on every trivia book.

been usual, I know, to print the ns, en masse, at the end of the

insert the notes at the feet of the pages which they respectively belong, without e cumbering the text in any unsightly manne If a reader has either not time or not inc nation to refer to these notes as he pr ceeds, he can as easily pass them over as they were not there; but if he reads wi deliberation, and does not think it time m spent to assist his understanding by a ref rence to local or critical explications, the are certainly referred to with more pleasur because with less trouble, than by turni on every trivial occasion to the end of th book.