the investigation far without undertaking to make a complete bibliography of Swift.  Mr. Temple Scott says, in the Advertisement of his edition of Swift’s Prose Works, begun in 1897, that since Sir Walter’s edition of 1824 “there has been no serious attempt to grapple with the difficulties which then prevented and which still beset the attainment of a trustworthy and substantially complete text.”]

[Footnote 190:  Swift, Vol.  IV, p. 280.  Two more of Scott’s comments may be given, further to illustrate his method.  “This piece [William Crowe’s Address to her Majesty, Swift, Vol.  XII, p. 265] and those which follow, were first extracted by the learned Dr. Barrett, of Trinity College, Dublin, from the Lanesborough and other manuscripts.  I have retained them from internal evidence, as I have discarded some articles upon the same score.”  “The following poems [poems given as “ascribed to Swift,” Vol.  X, p. 434] are extracted from the manuscript of Lord Lanesborough, called the Whimsical Medley.  They are here inserted in deference to the opinion of a most obliging correspondent, who thinks they are juvenile attempts of Swift.  I own I cannot discover much internal evidence in support of the supposition.”]

[Footnote 191:  Colonel Parnell, writing in the English Historical Review on “Dean Swift and the Memoirs of Captain Carleton,” has spoken of the biography as “this most partial, verbose, and inaccurate account of the dean’s life and writings.”  He says also that in editing Carleton’s Memoirs Scott adopted, without investigation and in the face of evidence, Johnson’s opinion that the memoirs were genuine; that Scott was mistaken about the date of the first edition and misquoted the title page; and that his “glowing account” of Lord Peterborough, in the introduction, was amplified (without acknowledgment) from a panegyric by Dr. Birch in “Houbraken’s Heads.” (English Historical Review, January, 1891; vi:  97.  For a further reference to the article see below, p. 144.)]

  [Footnote 192:  Lockhart, Vol.  II, p. 20.]

  [Footnote 193:  September, 1816.]

  [Footnote 194:  Swift Vol.  XVII, p. 4, note.]

  [Footnote 195:  Life of Swift, conclusion.]

  [Footnote 196:  Swift, Vol.  XI, p. 12.]

[Footnote 197:  Vol.  IX, p. 569.  The tract had already been correctly assigned.  A similar note on another tract indicates more careful research on the part of the editor.  The paper is A Secret History of One Year, which had commonly been attributed to Robert Walpole.  Scott says:  “This tract in not to found in Mr. Coxe’s list of Sir Robert Walpole’s publications, nor in that given by his son, the Earl of Oxford, in the Royal and Noble Authors....  It does not seem at all probable that Walpole should at this crisis have thought it proper to advocate these principles.” (Vol.  XIII, p. 873.) The piece is now attributed to Defoe.]

  [Footnote 198:  See above, p. 4.]