with a Page of _Mr. Baxter_ under a Christmas Pye....
I might likewise mention a Paper-Kite, from which I have received great
Improvement."

William K. Wimsatt, Jr.
Yale University

NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION

[Footnote 1: The chief authorities for the history which I am
summarizing are W. L. Phelps, _The Beginnings of the English
Romantic Movement_, Boston, 1893, Chapter VII; E. K. Broadus,
"Addison's Influence on the Development of Interest in Folk-Poetry
in the Eighteenth Century," _Modern Philology_, VIII (July, 1910),
123-134; S. B. Hustvedt, _Ballad Criticism in Scandinavia and
Great Britain During the Eighteenth Century_, New York, 1916.]

[Footnote 2: "Addison's Contribution to Criticism," in R. F. Jones
_et al._, _The Seventeenth Century_ (Stanford, 1951), p. 329.]

[Footnote 3: Edward B. Reed, "Two Notes on Addison," _Modern
Philology_, VI (October, 1908), 187. The attribution of _A Comment
Upon Tom Thumb_ and other satirical pieces to the Dr. William
Wagstaffe who died in 1725 as Physician to St. Bartholomew's
Hospital depends entirely upon the fact that a collection of such
pieces was published, with an anonymous memoir, in 1726 under the
title _Miscellaneous Works of Dr. William Wagstaffe_. Charles
Dilke, _Papers of a Critic_ (London, 1875), I, 369-382. argues
that not Wagstaffe but Swift was the author of some of the pieces
in the volume. The case for Wagstaffe is put by Nicholas Moore in
a letter to _The Athenaeum_, June 10, 1882 and in his article on
Wagstaffe in the _DNB_. Paul V. Thompson, "Swift and the Wagstaffe
Papers," _Notes and Queries_, 175 (1938), 79, supports the notion
of Wagstaffe as an understrapper of Swift. The negative part of
Dilke's thesis is perhaps the more plausible. _A Comment Upon Tom
Thumb_, as Dilke himself confesses (_Papers_, p. 377), scarcely
sounds very much like Swift.]

[Footnote 4: Text, p. 6. The nursery rhyme _Tom Thumb, His Life
and Death_, 1630, and the augmented _History of Tom Thumb_,
c. 1670, are printed with introductory remarks by W. C. Hazlitt,
_Remains of the Early Popular Poetry of England_, II (London,
1866), 166-250.]

[Footnote 5: Cf. George R. Potter, "Henry Baker, F.R.S.
(1698-1774)," _Modern Philology_, XXIX (1932), 305. Nathan Drake,
_The Gleaner_, I (London, 1811), 220 seems mistaken in his remark