The first few chapters are much more developed than the later ones, and it appears that the work was unfinished and uncorrected at Swift's death.

[1] The work is in 16 chapters: A 2015 review of Les Editions de Londres suggests that the light-hearted Directions to Servants is more of a Horatian than Juvenalian satire.

But Swift is not concerned with the reform of society, and he does not have Beaumarchais’s pre-revolutionary stress on the injustice of an aristocratic system.

Rather, his intent is to mock and denounce the travails of human nature as did Ben Jonson over a century earlier.

[1] Although the essay is generally little-known in Britain, in France it is (after Gulliver’s Travels) one of his most famous works.