Hawkesworth and Thomas Sheridan supplied biographies which Leslie Stephen characterized by saying that Hawkesworth's gave no new material and that Sheridan's was "pompous and dull." (Preface to Leslie Stephen's _Life of Swift_.)] [Footnote 187: _Correspondence of C.K.Sharpe_, Vol.

II, p.

178.] [Footnote 188: This correspondence consisted of 28 letters from Swift, and 16 "Vanessa."] [Footnote 189: A comparison of the index with the bibliography in the _Dictionary of National Biography_ and with Mr.Stanley Lane-Poole's _Notes for a Bibliography of Swift_ (_Bibliographer_, vi: 160-71) shows that Scott was usually right in his judgment on the main articles.

But since Mr.Lane-Poole ends his list thus: "And numerous short poems, trifles, characters and short pieces," it is evident that one cannot carry the investigation far without undertaking to make a complete bibliography of Swift.

Mr.Temple Scott says, in the Advertisement of his edition of Swift's Prose Works, begun in 1897, that since Sir Walter's edition of 1824 "there has been no serious attempt to grapple with the difficulties which then prevented and which still beset the attainment of a trustworthy and substantially complete text."] [Footnote 190: _Swift_, Vol.