Excerpt from The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Vol. 9 Wift has been styled the Prince of Journalists. Like most titles whose aim is to express in modern words the character and achievements of a man of a past age, this phrase is not of the happiest. Applied to so extraordinary a man as Jonathan Swift, it is both misleading and in adequate. At best it embodies but a half-truth. It belongs to that class Of phrases which, in emphasizing a particular side of the character, sacrifices truth to a superficial clever ness, and so does injustice to the character as awhole. The vogue such phrases Obtain is thus the measure of the mis understanding that is current; so that it often becomes necessary to receive them with caution and to test them with care. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.