remains the kind of tale which may be read at any time because it appeals to the fundamental love of adventure in human beings.  Its author was undoubtedly only one of many men who, under the influence of Godwin, Swift, and others, could weave a tale in an accepted pattern.  Yet there are elements which make it unique; and it deserves at least this opportunity of rising phoenix-like from the ashes of the past and being treasured by posterity.

MARJORIE NICOLSON
Smith College
Northampton, Mass. 
Nov. 3, 1939

[1:  The best treatment of the South Sea Bubble for students of literature will be found in Lewis Melville, The South Sea Bubble, Boston, 1923.  The author has also included in his volume extracts from dozens of satires which appeared after 1720.  He does not, however, mention A Voyage to Cacklogallinia.]

  [2:  Pages 107 ff.]

  [3:  The list of “bubbles” may be found in Melville, op. cit.,
  chap, iv; Cobbett, Parliamentary History, VII, 656 ff., Somers,
  Tracts [ed. 1815], XIII, 818.]

  [4:  Contemporary letters indicating the interest of both men and
  women in speculation may be found in Historical Manuscripts
  Commission, XLV, 200, and CXXV, 288, 294-95, 349-50.]

[5:  I have discussed the relationship between aviation and the “new astronomy” in several articles dealing with voyages to the moon.  Bibliography may be found in two of these, “A World in the Moon,” in Smith College Studies in Modern Languages, Vol.  XVII (No. 2, January, 1936), and “Swift’s ‘Flying Island’ in the ’Voyage to Laputa,’” Annals of Science, II (October, 1937), 405-31.]

  [6:  Mathematicall Magick; or, The Wonders That May Be Performed
  by Mechanicall Geometry, London, 1648; in Mathematical and
  Philosophical Works, London, 1802, II, 199.]

  [7:  The Discovery of a World in the Moone; or, A Discourse Tending
  to Prove, That ’Tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World in
  That Planet, London, 1638.]

[8:  The Man in the Moone; or, A Discourse of a Voyage thither by D. Gonsales, [By F.G.], London, 1638.  This has recently been republished from the first edition by Grant McColley in Smith College Studies in Modern Languages XIX (1937).]

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A VOYAGE TO CACKLOGALLINIA: 

With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners, of that Country

by

CAPTAIN SAMUEL BRUNT

London: 
Printed by J. WATSON in Black-Fryers, and
sold by the Booksellers of London and
Westminster. 1727

[Price Sticht, Two Shillings and Sixpence.]