Perpetual be thy glory and renown: Perpetual lord dictator shalt thou be. POMPEY.

Perpetual as are Sterne's affectations, and tiresome as is his eternal self-consciousness when he is speaking in his own person, yet when once the dramatic instinct fairly lays hold of him there is no writer who ever makes us more completely forget him in the presence of his charactersnone who can bring them and their surroundings, their looks and words, before us with such convincing force of reality.

Perpetual, highly organised, scientific drudgery is three parts of war, it seems, as men now wage it.