Excerpt from Little Masterpieces

The admirers of Swift who may chance to turn the leaves of this little volume will be interested, I think, to find that it opens with passages from the Journal to Stella. Many of the books in the Little Masterpieces series have contained personalia of one sort or another, but in none of the volumes bith erto has the intimate life of the writer rep resented been SO emphasized in the order of selections. But readers who know Swift will recognize what is gained by taking first of all a look at that strange writer's heart as it is revealed in his daily journal. Vivid as are its off-hand Sketches of famous men and of London in a noteworthy era, the fascination of the Journal to Stella lies in the ex 'traordinary picture it affords of Jonathan Swift. Readers who know him vaguely as the author of Gulliver's Travels and of some morose satire will do well to note the playful, affectionate, sunny side of the man's nature as he corresponds with Esther John son about the tri¿es of each passing day. One's whole thought of Swift grows more tender and more just if he is approached through the Journal.

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