THE WORKS OF LAURENCE STERNE, IN FOUR VOLUMES, WITH A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. A NEW EDITION, WITH APPENDIX, CONTAINING SEVERAL UNPUBLISHED EDITED BY JAMES P. BROWNE, M.D. VOL. III. LONDON: BICKERS AND SON, 1, LEICESTER SQUARE, W.C. 1873. THE NEW YORK 915221 ASTOR, LENG" AND TILLEN: R LONDON: PRINTED BY W. WILFRED HEAD, PLOUGH COURT, FETTER LANE, PREFACE. (TO THE FIRST EDITION.) THE Sermon which gave rise to the publication of these, having been offered to the world as a Sermon of Yorick's, I hope the most serious reader will find nothing to offend him, in my continuing these volumes under the same title. Lest it should be otherwise, I have added a second title-page, with the real name of the author:-the first will serve the Bookseller's purpose, as Yorick's name is possibly, of the two, the more known; and the second will ease the minds of those who see a jest, and the danger which lurks under it, where no jest was meant. I suppose it is needless to inform the Public, that the reason of printing these Sermons arises altogether from the favourable reception which the Sermon given as a sample of them in TRISTRAM SHANDY met with from the world: - that Sermon was printed by itself some years ago, but could find neither purchasers nor readers; so that I apprehended little hazard from a promise I made upon its republication, That if the Sermon was liked, 'these should be also at the world's service;' which, to be as good as my word, they here are; and I pray to GOD they may do it the service I wish. have little to say in their behalf, except this, that not one of them was composed with any thoughts of being printed;-they have been hastily written, I |