The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-07

full friendliness with not q mean or
severe word in them.
In these letters OF the Deans last
years everything else IL subordinate
to the personal interest: especially
the faithful friendship q Pope and
Of Mrs. Whiteway, which supported
Swift. consciously failing. In oc-
tober. 1898, Pope writes from Twicken-
ham:
~ dear Dean. whom never viii for
get think OF with cooines-. many are
yet living here who frequently mention
you with affection and respect. Lord
Orrs-y. Lord Bathurst. Lord Boiling broke.
Lord oxford. Lord Nssham. Lewis. Mrs
y. Biount--ailow on woman 10 the lit.
Tor she 8. constant 30 Old frlendships
any man; and many young men th.re
arr. nay a.! that are any credi; 10 this
age who love you unknown who kIndls
az your hre and learn By your genius
NothlnG OF you cen die, nothing OF you
can decay. nothing OF you can suTer.
nothing Of you can BE- obscursd or locked
up from esteem and admiration, except
vha; Is ~ IN. Deansry: Just as much OF
sou only as God made mortal.
A noble creed.
There are not in the book ten con-
secutive pages without reference by
Swift or another to his infirmities OF
body and mind. his deafness. giddiness
and lapses OF memory. In May OF
1910 the loyal Mrs. whiteway writes
TO Pope: should make an apology
for writing to you. I might be asked
why did 30. II I have erred. my de-
sign at least is good. both 70 you and
Go
in relation to my friend. and I write
10 his friend, which hope will plead
my excuse. As ! saw a letter Of yours
to him / take the liberty
20 tell YOU with grief OF heart. his
memory Is so much impaired that in
a few hours he forgot g. nor Is his
judgment sound enough, had he many
tracts by him, to finish or correct
them as you have desired" She as
su.es Pope that the Deans literary
property shall be we'll cared for: he
had destroyed all OF his imprinted
work except few loose papers. which.
n Mrs. whiteway survives the au-
thor. she promises 20 send 90 the press
only with Pope's approval: There
Is one treatise in his own keeping
finished and incorrect yet what is
done OF i has so much humor that II
may appear as a posthumous work"
Mrs Wh!teway is quoted thus at
length and might fltly be quoted even
more generously as showing frs; with
what tender solIcitude the Dean was
cared for IN his last years. and. sec
ond. the unreasonableness Of the great
man in h!s attitude toward woman.
What right had he. with his Stella.
celebrated In the Birthday Verses
as The brightest virgin on the green"
his Nanessa and his Mrs. Whiteway.
10 scorn the sex: "A very little wit
is valued in woman, as We are
pleased with few words spoken plain
by a parrot? The gentle raillery OF
"Cadenus and Vanessa IL inofrensive;
less amiable but not unkind IL the
passage in the poem ION tho Death Of
Or. Swift beginning:
My female friends. Whose tender heart.
Have better learned 20 &C: their parts
Receive the news with do!.ful dumps:
TIL. Dean Is dead" Pray. what I.
irumpED
In all the writings OF Jonathan
swift is there any passage more lu-
nlinous with personality OF authorship
than this: There are but three ways
for man 10 revenge himself OF the
censure OF the world to despse IT, TO
return the ike. or TO endeavor to live
50 as 10 avoid it. The first Of these Is
usually pretended, the last Is almost
impossible. the universal practice IS
for the second" Instead OF avoiding
criticism he challenged fl. pretending
intermittently 20 desp!se Il. lie re
turned the like" in such measure as
no other mind in the history OF litera-
ture has been capable Of or. grant
ing the capacity. has cared or dared
TO indulge in.