sentimental_ letter. Having often laughed at the word, and found fault with the application of it, and this being the first time I ventured to make use of it, I was loudly congratulated upon the occasion: but I should be glad to know your interpretation of it’ (Richardson’s _Correspondence_, 1804, iv. pp. 282–3). The reply of the author of _Clarissa_, which would have been interesting, is not given; but it is clear that by this date (1749) ‘sentimental’ must already have been rather overworked by ‘the polite.’ Eleven years after this we meet with it in the Prologue to Colman’s ‘Dramatick Novel’ of _Polly Honeycombe_. ‘And then,’ he says, commenting upon the fiction of the period,— And then so _sentimental_ is the Stile, So chaste, yet so bewitching all the while! Plot, and elopement, passion, rape, and rapture, The total sum of ev’ry dear—dear—Chapter. With February, 1768, came Sterne’s _ Sentimental Journey_ upon which Wesley has this comment:—‘I casually took a volume of what is called, “A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy.” _Sentimental_! what is that? It is not English: he might as well say, _ Continental_ [!]. It is not sense. It conveys no determinate idea; yet one fool makes many. And this nonsensical word (who would believe it?) is become a fashionable one!’ (_Journal_, February 11, 1772). In 1773, Goldsmith puts it in the ‘Dedication’ to _She Stoops_:—‘The undertaking a comedy, not merely _sentimental_, was very dangerous;’ and Garrick (forgetting Kelly and _False Delicacy_) uses it more than once in his ‘Prologue’ to the same play, e.g.—‘Faces are blocks in _sentimental_ scenes.’ Further examples might easily be multiplied, for the word, in spite of Johnson, had now come to stay. Two years subsequently we find Sheridan referring to The goddess of the woful countenance, The _sentimental_ Muse!— in an occasional ‘Prologue’ to _The Rivals_. It must already have passed into the vocabulary of the learned. Todd gives examples from Shenstone and Langhorne. Warton has it more than once in his _History of English Poetry_; and it figures in the _Essays_ of Vicesimus Knox. Thus academically launched, we need no longer follow its fortunes. APPENDIX D FRAGMENTS OF TRANSLATIONS, ETC., BY GOLDSMITH. To the Aldine edition of 1831, the Rev. John Mitford added several fragments of translation from Goldsmith’s _Essays_. About a third of these were traced by Bolton Corney in 1845 to the _Horace_ of Francis. He therefore compiled a fresh collection, here given. _From a French version of Homer_. The shouting army cry’d with joy extreme, He sure must conquer, who himself can tame! _The Bee_, 1759, p. 90.