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 A NEW EDITION, WITH APPENDIX, CONTAINING SEVERAL UNPUBLISHED EDITED BY JAMES P. BROWNE, M.D. VOL.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 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. I 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, |