NOTE ON HERODOTUS BY DEAN SWIFT

The inclosed unpublished note of Dean Swift will, I hope, be deemed worthy of a place in your columns. It was written by him in his Herodotus, which is now in the library of Winchester College, having been presented to it in 1766, by John Smyth de Burgh, Earl of Clanricarde. The genuineness of the handwriting is attested by a certificate of George Faulkner, who, it appears, was well qualified to decide upon it. The edition is Jungerman's, folio, printed by Paul Stephens, in 1718. "*Judicium de Herodoto post longum tempus relicto*:— "Ctesias mendacissimus Herodotum mendaciorum arguit, exceptis…