o new
material and that Sheridan's was "pompous and dull." (Preface to
Leslie Stephen's _Life of Swift_.)]

[Footnote 187: _Correspondence of C.K. Sharpe_, Vol. II, p. 178.]

[Footnote 188: This correspondence consisted of 28 letters from Swift,
and 16 "Vanessa."]

[Footnote 189: A comparison of the index with the bibliography in the
_Dictionary of National Biography_ and with Mr. Stanley Lane-Poole's
_Notes for a Bibliography of Swift_ (_Bibliographer_, vi: 160-71)
shows that Scott was usually right in his judgment on the main
articles. But since Mr. Lane-Poole ends his list thus: "And numerous
short poems, trifles, characters and short pieces," it is evident that
one cannot carry 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