434] are extracted from the manuscript of Lord Lanesborough, called the Whimsical Medley.

They are here inserted in deference to the opinion of a most obliging correspondent, who thinks they are juvenile attempts of Swift.

I own I cannot discover much internal evidence in support of the supposition."] [Footnote 191: Colonel Parnell, writing in the _English Historical Review_ on "Dean Swift and the Memoirs of Captain Carleton," has spoken of the biography as "this most partial, verbose, and inaccurate account of the dean's life and writings." He says also that in editing _Carleton's Memoirs_ Scott adopted, without investigation and in the face of evidence, Johnson's opinion that the memoirs were genuine; that Scott was mistaken about the date of the first edition and misquoted the title page; and that his "glowing account" of Lord Peterborough, in the introduction, was amplified (without acknowledgment) from a panegyric by Dr.Birch in "Houbraken's Heads." (_English Historical Review_, January, 1891; vi: 97.

For a further reference to the article see below, p.

144.)] [Footnote 192: _Lockhart_, Vol.