SWIFT

_The bust in St. Patrick’s Cathedral_]

SWIFT

BY CARL VAN DOREN

NEW YORK THE VIKING PRESS 1930

PUBLISHED OCTOBER, 1930 SECOND PRINTING NOVEMBER, 1930 COPYRIGHT 1930 BY CARL VAN DOREN PRINTED IN U. S. A.

ILLUSTRATIONS

JONATHAN SWIFT FRONTISPIECE

_From the bust by Patrick Cunningham in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin_

FACING PAGE

JONATHAN SWIFT as a student at Trinity College 14

_From a portrait by an unknown painter. The portrait is no longer known to exist, nor is it certainly a portrait of Swift though generally thought to be_

ESTHER JOHNSON (Stella) 60

_From a portrait by an unknown painter, now in private hands. The date is unknown but it represents Stella as a young woman_

JONATHAN SWIFT 122

_From a portrait by Charles Jervas, now in the National Portrait Gallery, London_

ESTHER VANHOMRIGH (Vanessa) 148

_From a portrait by an unknown painter, now in private hands. The date is uncertain_

ESTHER JOHNSON (Stella) 168

_From a portrait by an unknown painter, now in private hands. It seems to be of a later date than the portrait of Stella listed above_

JONATHAN SWIFT as Dean of St. Patrick’s 226

_From a portrait by Francis Bindon, now in the Deanery House of St. Patrick’s Cathedral_

JONATHAN SWIFT in old age 254

_From a portrait attributed to Stephen Slaughter, now in private hands_

SWIFT