London the details of a house in Ireland, or that he used for Ireland the details of a house in London. If, on the other hand, it be contended that those details were common to both places, then the identification in these particulars of Auburn with Lissoy falls hopelessly to the ground. * What follows is taken from the writer’s ‘Introduction’ to Mr. Edwin Abbey’s illustrated edition of _ The Deserted Village_, 1902, p. ix. APPENDIX C THE EPITHET ‘SENTIMENTAL.’ Goldsmith’s use of ‘sentimental’ in the ‘prologue’ to _She Stoops to Conquer_ (p. 109, l. 36)—the only occasion upon which he seems to have employed it in his _Poems_—affords an excuse for bringing together one or two dispersed illustrations of the rise and growth of this once highly-popular adjective, not as yet reached in the _N. E. D._ Johnson, who must often have heard it, ignores it altogether; and in Todd’s edition of his _Dictionary_ (1818) it is expressly marked with a star as one of the modern words which are ‘not’ to be found in the Doctor’s collection. According to Mr. Sidney Lee’s admirable article in the _Dictionary of National Biography_ on Sterne, that author is to be regarded as the ‘only begetter’ of the epithet. Mr. Lee says that it first occurs in a letter of 1740 written by the future author of _Tristram Shandy_ to the Miss Lumley he afterwards married. Here is the precise and characteristic passage:—‘I gave a thousand pensive, penetrating looks at the chair thou hadst so often graced, in those quiet and _sentimental_ repasts—then laid down my knife and fork, and took out my handkerchief, and clapped it across my face, and wept like a child’ (Sterne’s _Works_ by Saintsbury, 1894, v. 25). Nine years later, however circulated, ‘sentimental’ has grown ‘so much in vogue’ that it has reached from London to the provinces. ‘Mrs. Belfour’ (Lady Bradshaigh) writing from Lincolnshire to Richardson says:—‘Pray, Sir, give me leave to ask you . . . what, in your opinion, is the meaning of the word _sentimental_, so much in vogue amongst the polite, both in town and country? In letters and common conversation, I have asked several who make use of it, and have generally received for answer, it is—it is—_sentimental_. Every thing clever and agreeable is comprehended in that word; but [I] am convinced a wrong interpretation is given, because it is impossible every thing clever and agreeable can be so common as this word. I am frequently astonished to hear such a one is a _sentimental_ man; we were a _sentimental_ party; I have been taking a _ sentimental_ walk. And that I might be reckoned a little in the fashion, and, as I thought, show them the proper use of the word, about six weeks ago, I declared I had just received a _