a hundred years after death. But before we proceed with the evidence adduced by the bust, it becomes necessary to prove its identity, which, until now, could not be done satisfactorily. Upon the back of this cast, and running nearly from ear to ear, we find two lines of writing, greatly defaced, and a part of the upper and middle lines completely obliterated (a). This much, however, can still be read :

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"Dean Swift, taken off his * * the night of his burial, and the f*** one side larger than the other in nature. Opened before. ** The mould is in pieces."(b)

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Still this proof was inconclusive; but a deep indention, running nearly parallel with the brow, shews us where the calvarium had been sawn, and the pericranium drawn over it subsequently, and this indentation accurately corresponds with the division of the skull found in Swift's coffin in 1835, thus proving incontestibly the identity of both: they also correspond in the breadth, height, and general outline and measurements of the forehead, allowing about three-sixteenths of an inch for the thickness of the integuments. Posteriorly,

however, the bust and skull do not correspond; nevertheless this fact does not in any way militate against our argument, but rather tends to strengthen it, for, upon a careful examination of the bust, it is at once manifest that all the posterior part is fictitious, and evidently finished out, and modelled. in clay, and afterwards the plaster rasped down according to the eye of the artist, as may be seen in the annexed engraving. It was made in two parts, and the difference in surface between the hinder part and the smooth, polished,

(a) We are indebted to Mr. Ball, the able director of the museum of the University, for permission to publish this drawing, which was made by Mr. G. Du Noyer, and cut by Mr. Hanlon. The latter gentleman likewise engraved the skulls of Swift and Stella, which were drawn on wood by our distinguished anatomical draughtsman, Mr. Connolly.

(b) The original mask remained in the Museum, T. C. D., till within a few years ago, when it was accidentally destroyed.

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anterior portion, at once stamps it as fictitious. There is no ear upon the left side, and that upon the right was evidently taken off the body separately, and afterwards fitted into

the bust.

That it was a cast from the ear of Swift the reader has only to look at Lord Orrery's portrait, or any of the busts of the Dean, to be convinced, for Swift's ear was of a very peculiar formation.

This bust, like the skull, is quite edentulous; the nose slightly turned to the left side, and the left eye much less full and prominent than the right in fact it is comparatively sunken and collapsed within the orbit. It is well known that Swift had remarkably large, full, and prominent blue eyes. We may, perhaps, account for the hinder portion of the bust being constructed in the manner I have described, by the fact of the Dean having a quantity of long, white hair on the back of

his head, which his attendants would not permit to be either removed or injured by taking the mould. In confirmation of this supposition we quote the following passage from Mr. Monck Mason's Annals of St. Patrick's Cathedral, a work, by the way, which contains a clearer and better view of Swift than any other we have read. "A person who resides in my family," says Mr. Mason, in 1820, "is one of the few persons, perhaps the only one now living, who witnessed this melancholy spectacle,"―alluding to his lying in state. "She remembers him as well as if it was but yesterday: he was laid out in his own hall, and great crowds went to see him. His coffin was open; he had on his head neither cap nor wig; there was not much hair on the front or very top, but it was long and thick behind, very white, and was like flax on the pillow. Mrs. Barnard, his nursetender, sat at his head; but having occasion to leave the room for a short time, some person cut a lock of hair from his head, which she missed upon her return, and after that day no person was admitted to see him."(a)

(a) Throughout the previous pages we have not made references to the works from which we have derived our information, as they would require almost as much space as the text itself. Our principal authority was the first and last five volumes of Scott's edition of Swift's Works, particularly his epistolary correspondence. To these may be added, Orrery's, Hawkesworth's, Deane Swift's, Sheridan's, Johnson's, Faulkner's, Nicholl's, Berkely's, Roscoe's, Wills's, and Mr. Monck Mason's biographies, which were published either separately, or attached to editions of his works.

A very remarkable and very general popular error exists with respect to one of Swift's biographers. Having met frequent allusions to " Delany's Life of Swift," and even seen quotations purporting to be from it, we anxiously sought for it, first in all the public libraries, and then among our literary friends, and, in the outset, the recovery of this very generally known work seemed comparatively easy; for notwithstanding that it was not contained in any of the catalogues of libraries, all the persons connected with these institutions informed us that they were perfectly familiar with it, and would certainly have it for us on our next visit; and most of the publishers and booksellers knew it by appearance, but were unable just at the moment to lay their hands upon it. Our literary acquaintances had all seen it, several had read it, and two of them went so far as to say they possessed it, and

Let us now briefly review the symptoms of this very remarkable and lengthened case, endeavour to form a diagnosis of it, inquire into the cause of Swift's ophthalmic affection, and consider the question of his insanity, both in a medical and legal point of view.

From the foregoing recital of his symptoms we learn that whatever the real, original, exciting cause of Swift's bodily ailment may have been, it is plain that it was attributed, both by himself and his physicians, to some derangement of the stomach, and the remedies prescribed for him are conclusive on this point. It has been shewn that these gastric attacks were, in early life at least, induced by irregularities of diet. It is

would send it to us in the morning. Still the book could not be procured either here or in London. The only difference of opinion among those most familiar with it was as to whether it was published in quarto or octavo. Having at length assured ourselves that no such work had ever existed, and even written part of this note, our conviction was greatly staggered by finding in the first general catalogue published by the Royal Society, the following entry: "Delany, Patrick,-A Supplement to Swift's Life, containing Miscellanies by the Dean, Sheridan, Johnson, &c., with notes by the Editor (J. Nicholls). 4to. London, 1779." This appeared all but conclusive; yet not quite so, however. Our friend Dr. Madden undertook to examine the work itself, and thus answers our inquiries: "With regard to this work of Delany on Swift's life, which you were so long in search of, and which so many people speak of but cannot shew, lo! no such work of Delany's exists-no such work was ever written by Delany: the book described in the R. S. catalogue is wrongly described, for, on examining it, I find it is 'A Supplement to Swift's Life, containing Miscellanies by the Dean, Dr. Delany, Sheridan, Johnson, &c., with Notes by the Editor. London, 4to. 1779.' In fact, the thirteenth vol. of the 4to edition of Swift's Works, edited by Mr. Nicholls, in 1779, some time after the death of Dr. Delany."

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Delany did write two works, however, upon Swift, though not generally known to the learned; neither of these were, however, lives graphies. The first was entitled, "Observations upon Lord Orrery's Remarks upon the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift, containing several singular Anecdotes relating to the Character and Conduct of that great Genius, and the most deservedly celebrated Stella, in a series of Letters to his Lordship; to which are added the Original Pieces of the same Author (excellent in their kind) never before published." Dublin: printed

also evident that they were attended with vertigo, deafness, sickness of stomach, pain in the head, diminution of muscular power, as shewn by his tottering gait, and numbness or some slight loss of sensation in the upper extremities. That these in turn were symptomatic of some cerebral affection is manifest; but how far it depended on, or was induced by gastric disease, it is now difficult to determine; cases are, however, on record, which tend to shew that all the early symptoms of the Dean's malady may be produced by affections of the stomach and alimentary canal. As Swift advanced in years his symptoms became more decidedly cerebral, whilst the attacks became induced by causes which acted more on the mental than the corporeal nature, such as excitements of various kinds, great

for Robert Main, at Homer's Head, in Dame-street, 1754, 12mo., pp. 211. And another edition, in 8vo., was contemporaneously published by Reeve, at the Shakespear's Head, in London, pp. 310. It bears no name; but the letters J. R., are affixed to the preface, and it is well known to be Delany's. Besides this spirited answer to Lord Orrery, the same writer, in 1755, published a tract refuting some statements contained in Deane Swift's work. And as these animadversions were personally levelled at Delany, and he answers them in the first person, and styles his tract, "A Letter to Deane Swift, Esq., on his Essay upon the Life, Writings, and Character of Dr. J. Swift, by the Author of 'Observations on Lord Orrery's Remarks,' &c." 8vo. London, Reeve, pp. 31; it fixes the authorship of the "Observations" upon Dr. Delany.

Sir Walter Scott's lengthened quotation from Dr. Delany is, with the exception of one paragraph, nowhere to be found in either of Delany's works. It is chiefly made up from Faulkner's and Hawkesworth's biographies, which, as far as this portion of the life of the Dean is concerned, are solely and entirely abstracted from Deane Swift's and Mrs. Whiteway's letters already alluded to. We could point out several sentences in this account of the Dean's last illness, which are verbatim the same in no less than five works, and that without the smallest acknowledgment.

There is an autograph letter from Sir Walter Scott to C. G. Gavelin, Esq., of this city, in the MS. Library, T. C. D., in which he states that he had nothing whatever to do with the publication or revision of the second edition of the "Works of Jonathan Swift." We believe the editing of the second issue of this publication was intrusted to a son of Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd.