PAGE 5, l. 18. For “because” I am half inclined to read “became”—a very likely misprint. PAGE 6, ll. 4-10. “_Twelve ... Sixteen._”—This would bring us to 1723, which may or may not mark the date of a version of the “Conversation.” The first “Twelve” would almost exactly coincide with the “Essay on Conversation” referred to above. PAGE 12, l. 18. “_Isaac the Dancing-Master._”—Called by Steele in “Tatler,” No. 34, “my namesake Isaac.” He is best known by Soame Jenyns’ couplet:— “And Isaac’s rigadoon shall live as long As Raphael’s painting or as Virgil’s song.” He was, as became his profession, a Frenchman. Southey refers to him in “The Doctor.” PAGE 16, l. 6. “_Comedies and other fantastick Writings._”—Where they will be found, as the ingenious Mr. Wagstaff says, “strewed here and there.” PAGES 16, 17.—“_Graham. D. of R. E. of E. Lord and Lady H._”—I do not know that attempts at identifying these shadowy personages would be very wise. But the date assigned to the Colonel is one of the marks of long incubation. “Towards the end” of Charles II.’s reign would be about 1684. A fine gentleman of that day might very well have been Mr. Wagstaff’s “companion” had the latter written in 1710—less well had he written a quarter of a century later. PAGE 18, l. 24.—Swift, like a good Tory and Churchman, never forgave Burnet. PAGE 21, l. 2. “_Selling of Bargains_” is the returning of a coarse answer to a question or other remark. So in Dorset’s charming poem about “This Bess of my heart, this Bess of my soul.” PAGE 24, l. 26. “_Great Ornaments of Style_,” or, as it hath been put otherwise, “_a grand set-off to conversation_.”—Observe that in these passages as to Free-Thinking and Oaths, Swift maintains his invariable attitude as to profanity. PAGE 25, last line. “_Poet._”—I know him not, if he ever existed save as a maggot of Swift’s brain. PAGE 26, l. 13. “_Sir John Perrot._”—Deputy of Ireland and a stout soldier, but an unlucky politician. He died in the Tower, where he is not unlikely to have had leisure and reason to perfect himself in commination. PAGE 31, l. 16. “_Lilly._”—The Latin grammarian, of course, not the astrologer. PAGE 32, l. 12. “_e’n’t_” I presume to be identical with _ain’t_. PAGE 36, l. 21. It may seem strange that Mr. Wagstaff, who loves not books and scholars, should refer to a grave philosopher. But fine gentlemen in his youth had to know or seem to know their Hobbes. PAGE 38, l. 26. “_Please._”—_sic_ in orig. PAGE 41.—In this page Swift strikes in with his friends against the “dunces.” One may suspect that Tom Brown was in the first draught, and perhaps Dennis, Ward and Gildon being added later. PAGE 42, l. 6.—Ozell, the translator of Rabelais. Stevens I do not know or have forgotten, and the “Dunciad” knows him not. PAGE 44, l. 26. “_The Craftsman._”—This must be one of the latest additions, the “Craftsman” being the organ of Pulteney and the Opposition in the great Walpolian battle.