The result brought a treaty by which Louis XIV.
gained and the allies lost, and this in spite of the offers previously made by the bankrupt monarch at Gertruydenberg.
The further contents of this volume deal with what might better be called Swiftiana.

They include a collection of very interesting annotations made by Swift in his copies of Macky's "Characters," Clarendon's "History of the Rebellion," Burnet's "History of his Own Time," and Addison's "Freeholder." The notes to Clarendon and Burnet have always found an important place in the many editions of these well-known works which have been issued from time to time.

As here reprinted, however, they have in all cases been compared with the originals themselves.

It will be found that very many additions have been made, the result of careful comparison and collation with the originals in Swift's handwriting.
My obligations are again due to Mr.W.Spencer Jackson for very valuable assistance in the collation of texts; to Mr.George Ravenscroft Dennis for several important suggestions; to Mr.Percy Fitzgerald for the use I have made of his transcriptions; and to Mr.Strickland of the National Gallery of Ireland for his help in the matter of Swift portraits.
I am greatly indebted to Mr.C.Litton Falkiner of Killiney, co.
Wicklow, for his untiring assistance to me during my stay in Dublin; to the Very Rev.the Dean of St.Patrick's Cathedral for permission to consult the Marsh collection; and to the Rev.Newport J.D.White, the courteous librarian of the Marsh Library, for enthusiastic aid in my researches.

I also owe very hearty thanks to Mr.Stanley Lane-Poole for introductions to the librarians of Trinity College and the Royal Irish Academy.
The portrait prefixed to this volume is a reproduction of the bust by Roubiliac in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin.
TEMPLE SCOTT.
DUBLIN, _August 14th_, 1902.
CONTENTS THE HISTORY OF THE FOUR LAST YEARS OF THE QUEEN AN ABSTRACT OF THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND: From the invasion of it by Julius Caesar to the Reign of Henry the Second REMARKS ON THE CHARACTERS OF THE COURT OF QUEEN ANNE REMARKS ON LORD CLARENDON'S "HISTORY OF THE REBELLION" REMARKS ON BISHOP BURNET'S "HISTORY OF HIS OWN TIME" NOTES ON THE "FREEHOLDER" INDEX THE HISTORY OF THE FOUR LAST YEARS OF THE QUEEN.
By the late JONATHAN SWIFT, D.D.