LIST OF FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS. "He commanded his generals to draw up the troops" "Map of Lilliput and Blefuscu "I lay all this while ... in great uneasiness" "Producing his credentials" "These gentlemen made an exact inventory" "Her imperial majesty was pleased to smile very graciously upon me" "And created me a nardac upon the spot" "Three hundred tailors were employed" "The happiness ... of dining with me" "He desired I would hear him with patience" "I set sail ... at six in the morning" THE BICKERSTAFF-PARTRIDGE PAPERS by Jonathan Swift CONTENTS Predictions For The Year 1708 The Accomplishment of the First of Mr Bickerstaff's Predictions; An Elegy on the supposed Death of Partridge, the Almanack-Maker. An Epitaph on Partridge. Partridge's reply A vindication of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq; A famous prediction of Merlin, the British wizard. Dr. John Arbuthnot and Alexander Pope A TALE OF A TUB AND THE HISTORY OF MARTIN By Jonathan Swift Edited By Henry Morley 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 Critics 81 Section IV. A Tale of a Tub 90 Section V. A Digression in the Modern Kind 100 Section VI. A Tale of a Tub 106 Section VII. A Digression in Praise of Digressions 113 Section VIII. A Tale of a Tub 118 Section IX. A Digression Concerning the Original . . . 125 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 THE POEMS OF JONATHAN SWIFT, D.D., VOLUME I Edited By William Ernst Browning