it deserves at least this opportunity of rising
phoenix-like from the ashes of the past and being treasured by
posterity.

MARJORIE NICOLSON
Smith College
Northampton, Mass.
Nov. 3, 1939

[1: The best treatment of the South Sea Bubble for students of
literature will be found in Lewis Melville, _The South Sea Bubble_,
Boston, 1923. The author has also included in his volume extracts
from dozens of satires which appeared after 1720. He does not,
however, mention _A Voyage to Cacklogallinia_.]

[2: Pages 107 ff.]

[3: The list of "bubbles" may be found in Melville, _op. cit._,
chap, iv; Cobbett, _Parliamentary History_, VII, 656 ff., Somers,
_Tracts_ [ed. 1815], XIII, 818.]

[4: Contemporary letters indicating the interest of both men and
women in speculation may be found in _Historical Manuscripts
Commission_, XLV, 200, and CXXV, 288, 294-95, 349-50.]

[5: I have discussed the relationship between aviation and the "new
astronomy" in several articles dealing with voyages to the moon.
Bibliography may be found in two of these, "A World in the Moon,"
in _Smith College Studies in Modern Languages_, Vol. XVII (No. 2,
January, 1936), and "Swift's 'Flying Island' in the 'Voyage to
Laputa,'" _Annals of Science_, II (October, 1937), 405-31.]

[6: _Mathematicall Magick; or, The Wonders That May Be Performed
by Mechanicall Geometry_, London, 1648; in _Mathematical and
Philosophical Works_, London, 1802, II, 199.]

[7: _The Discovery of a World in the Moone; or, A Discourse Tending
to Prove, That 'Tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World in
That Planet_, London, 1638.]

[8: _The Man in the Moone; or, A Discourse of a Voyage thither
by D. Gonsales_, [By F.G.], London, 1638. This has recently been
republished from the first edition by Grant McColley in _Smith
College Studies in Modern Languages_ XIX (1937).]

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A VOYAGE TO CACKLOGALLINIA:

With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners,
of that Country

by

CAPTAIN SAMUEL BRUNT

London:
Printed by J. WATSON in Black-Fryers, and
sold by the Booksellers of London and
Westminster. 1727

[Price Sticht, Two Shillings and Sixpence.]

Nothing is more common than a Traveller's beginning the Account of
his Voyages with one of his own Family; in whic