CHATTERTON:

A STORY OF THE YEAR 1770.

Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Edinburgh

London:

MACMILLAN AND CO.

1874.

[The Right of Translation and Reproduction is Reserved.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY MAR 5 1941

LONDON:

R. CLAY, SONS, AND TAYLOR, PRINTERS,

BREAD STREET HILL.

PREFATORY NOTE.

THE Story is reprinted from the Author's Essays Biographical and Critical: chiefly on English Poets, published in 1856. In several pages of Part II. there has been a correction of the facts. The reasons

are explained in footnotes at pages 161 and 250.

EDINBURGH:

September 1874.