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CRITICISMS ON THE FIRST EDITION.

"Forty years ago, Mr. Cottle and myself thought nothing

You, however, have

more could be gleaned respecting Chatterton. struck on a new vein in the mine of Biographical investigation-your perseverance is most creditable-so is your work."

FROM A LETTER FROM ROBERT SOUTHEY TO THE AUTHOR.

"Mr. Dix has so completely written the Life of Chatterton, that the labours of future biographers can well be spared."

JOHN FOSTER.-Vide Works.

"Mr. Dix's excellent Biography."

MRS. S. C. HALL.-(Art Union.)

"By far the best Life of the Marvellous Boy' which

has hitherto appeared."

ATHENEUM.

Acc. to in DNB,

John Dix is

a pseudonym for John Russ

(1800 2 - 1865)

a surgeon

g. Bristol, who Life Chatterton

appeared in 1837

THE LIFE

OF

THOMAS CHATTERTON;

INCLUDING HIS

UNPUBLISHED POEMS AND CORRESPONDENCE.

BY JOHN DIX,

AUTHOR OF PEN PICTURES OF POPULAR ENGLISH PREACHERS,
"PEN AND INK SKETCHES,' "" ETC.

LONDON:

PARTRIDGE & OAKEY, PATERNOSTER ROW.

MDCCCLI.

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