plicity. That he has in his works no metaphor, as has been stated, is not true, but his few metaphors seem to be received rather by necessity than choice. He studied purity, and though perhaps all his strictures are not exact, yet it is not often these solecisms can be found; and whoever depends on his authority may generally conclude himself safe. His sentences are never too much dilated or contracted, and it would not be easy to find any embarrassment in the complication of his clauses, any inconsequence in his connections, or abruptness in his transitions. His style was well suited to his thoughts, which are never subtilized by rare disquisitions, decorated by sparkling conceits, elevated by ambitious sentences, or variegated by farsought learning. He pays no court to the passions; he excites neither surprise nor admiration. He always understands himself, and his readers always understand him. The peruser of Swift wants little previous knowledge, and it is sufficient that he is acquainted with common words and common things. He is neither required to mount elevations nor to explore profundities. His passage is always on a level or by solid ground, without asperities, without obstruction.-DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON: Lives of the Poets. BOOKS OF REFERENCE. Sir Walter Scott's "Life of Swift." Thackeray's "English Humorists." "Jonathan Swift," by Leslie Stephen, Taine's "English Literature." Forster's "Life of Swift" (1876). and Antiquities of the Church of Sheridan's "Life of Swift" (1785). INDEX. ABBOTSFORD, ii. 278–280. Adams, John Quincy, ii. 120, 122, 123. 295, 338, 401, 434, 439, 440, 467, Adolphus of Nassau, i. 14. Æschylus, i. 96; ii. 365. Airy, George Biddell, ii. 407. Alembert, Jean le Rond d', ii. 15. Allston, Washington, ii. 126. Andersen, Hans Christian, ii. 331. Angelico, Fra, i. 95. Angelo, Michael, i. 95-97; ii. 118, Angus, Professor, ii. 335. "Annus Mirabilis," i. 378, 407-409. Arago, ii. 426. Arce, Nuñez de, ii. 431. Ariosto, Ludovico, i. 13, 95, 96, 106, 110, 153, 154. Arndt, Ernst Moritz, ii. 116. Arnold of Germany, i. 14. Arnold, Matthew, i. 15, 17; ii. 50, 52, Arnold, Dr. Thomas, ii. 244. Alfieri, Vittorio, ii. 20, 21, 118, 163, Arthur, King of Britain, i. 8, 14. 164, 365. Alfonso I., II., III., and IV., of Ara- gon, i. 19. Ascham, Roger, i. 56, 86, 87, 104, 105, 320. Astor Library, ii. 433. Alfonso I., II., III., IV., and V., of Athelstan, i. 7. Audubon, John James, ii. 124. Auerbach, Berthold, ii. 428. Alison, Sir Archibald, ii. 286, 314, 315, Augustine, St., i. 9. 325, 415. Aurispa, i. 94. Barbauld, Anna Lætitia, i. 532. Bayne, Peter, ii. 447, 466–476, 481- | Beaumont, Francis, i. 113, 119. Bismarck, Otto von, ii. 428. Black, William, ii. 70, 71, 74, 78, 79, Blair, Hugh, i. 535. Blessington, Earl, and Lady, ii. 364. Boccaccio, Giovanni, i. 18, 27-29, 44, Boerne, L., i. 218, 227, 230, 233. Boiardo, Matteo Maria, i. 95, 96, 153. Bolingbroke, Lord, i. 442, 470, 485, Bonaparte, Louis Napoleon, ii. 425. Bond, William Cranch, ii. 124. Beaumont, Sir George, ii. 234, 238, Booth, Barton, i. 250, 438. 239. Beaupius, General, ii. 236. Becket, Thomas à, i. II. Bede, i. 9, 10. Beecher, Dr. Lyman, ii. 121. Benedict XIV., Pope, i. 450; ii. 20. Béranger, Jean Pierre de, ii. III, 112. Berkeley, George, i. 442. Berners, Lord, i. 86. Berni, Francesco, i. 96, 97, 153. Biot, Jean Baptiste, ii. 426. Brandt, Sebastian, i, 92. Brimley, George, ii. 505, 506, 509–511, Brown, Charles Brockden, ii. 126. Brown, Henry Kirk, ii. 438. Brown, Dr. Thomas, i. 381; ii. 105. Browning, Robert Barrett, ii. 456. 411. Bryant, William Cullen, ii. 127, 434, 435. Buchanan, James, ii. 432. Buchanan, Robert, ii. 493, 499–501. Budgell, Eustace, i. 517. Buffon, George Louis le Clerc, ii. 16, Bulwer-Lytton, Sir Edward, i. II, 29, Burke, Edmund, i. 129, 255; ii. 9-11, 33, 37, 57, 62, 63, 89, 122, 287. Burnet, Bishop, i. 86. Burney, Charles, Mus. D., ii. 37. Burns, Robert, i. 66, 84; ii. 91, 92, 157, 165-217, 281, 365. Butler, Samuel, i. 60, 97, 376, 377. CABLE, GEORGE, ii. 439. Cæsar, Julius, i. 10. Calderon de la Barca, Don Pedro, i. Calhoun, John Caldwell, ii. 121, 122. Calvin, John, i. 91, 93. Cambridge, University of, i. 12. Camoens, Luis de, i. 123. Campbell, Thomas, i. 130, 160, 213, Cardan, Jerome, i. 121, 122. Carducci, Giosuè, ii. 430. Carlyle, Thomas, i. 17, 238, 456, 535; Carruthers, Robert, i. 461-465. Cassini, Jean Dominique, i. 385. Caxton, William, i. 33, 43, 83. Cesarotti, Melchior, ii. 20. Charles I., of England, i. 103, 113. Charles V. and VI., of France, i. 27. Coleridge, S. T., i. 34, 148, 215, 219, Collier, Jeremy, i. 381. Collins, William, ii. 12, 13, 88. Colonna, Guido de, i. 59. Colonna, Vittoria, i. 97. Chateaubriand, François René de, i. | Columbus, Christopher, i. 398. 130, 234, 296, 355; ii. 109. Chatham, Earl of, ii. 10. Chaucer, Geoffrey, i. 12, 14, 25-27, 29, 44. Chicago fire, ii. 440. Commines, Philippe de, i. 90, 91. Comte, Auguste, ii. 407, 426. Child, Professor, i. 77, 137-139, 148, Conrad I., II., III., and IV., of Ger- 149, 160-162; ii. 436. Childs, George W., ii. 434. Christina, of Sweden, i. 119. Circulation of the blood, Discovery of, Corn-laws, ii. 413. i. 112. Ciullo d'Alcamo, i. 17. Civil War in America, ii. 434, 435. Clement VI., Pope, i. 28. Clement IX. and X., Popes, i. 387. Corson, Professor, i. 77. Crabbe, George, ii. 88, 288. Crebillon, Prosper Joliot de, ii. 15. English philosophical, ii. 103. Crystal Palace, ii. 417. Cunningham, Allan, ii. 182, 183, 190, |