Transcribed from the 1889 George Routledge and Sons “Carisbrooke Library” edition by Steven Rice. Second proofing by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org [Picture: Book cover] A TALE OF A TUB AND THE HISTORY OF MARTIN BY JONATHAN SWIFT * * * * * EDITED BY HENRY MORLEY, LL.D. PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON * * * * * LONDON GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS BROADWAY, LUDGATE HILL GLASGOW MANCHESTER AND NEW YORK 1889 CONTENTS. A TALE OF A TUB To the Right Honourable John Lord Somers 37 The Bookseller to The Reader 41 The Epistle Dedicatory 43 The Preface 49 Section I. The Introduction 59 Section II. 70 Section III. A Digression Concerning 81 Critics Section IV. A Tale of a Tub 90 Section V. A Digression in the Modern 100 Kind Section VI. A Tale of a Tub 106 Section VII. A Digression in Praise of 113 Digressions Section VIII. A Tale of a Tub 118 Section IX. A Digression Concerning the 125 Original . . . Section X. A Farther Digression 138 Section XI. A Tale of a Tub 143 The Conclusion 155 THE HISTORY OF MARTIN The History of Martin 159 A Digression on the Nature . . . 163 The History of Martin—_Continued_ 164 A Project for the Universal Benefit of Mankind 165 A TALE OF A TUB. ORIGINAL ADVERTISEMENT. Treatifes writ by the fame Author, moft of them mentioned in the following Discourfes; which will be fpeedily publifhed. A _Character of the prefent Set of_ Wits _in this Ifland_. _A Panegyrical Effay upon the Number_ THREE. _A Differtation upon the principal productions of_ Grub-ftreet.