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178 ick’s account may function as a parody of Palmer’s work. E.g., ‘‘This brings me . . . into the efficient as well as the final causes of travelling’’ (13.25–27) is echoed in Palmer’s opening comments about the two motivating causes for travel , ‘‘namely . . . the efficient and finall’’ (2), a phrase repeated again on this page and elsewhere in the work with some regularity . And when Yorick divides his subject on p. 14, and calls particularattention to those who travel because of ‘‘Infirmity of body . . . or Inevitable necessity . . . by land or by water, labouring with pride, curiosity, vanity or spleen, subdivided and combined in infinitum’’ (14.4–9), he was perhaps looking very specifically at Palmer’s diagrams, where one division is between ‘‘Involuntaries’’ and ‘‘Voluntaries ,’’another singles out, ‘‘Decrepite persons , Fooles, Madmen, and Lunatics’’as those ‘‘inhibited’’from travel, and a third diagram tells the traveler particularly to shun ‘‘Ambition, Sensualities, Vaineglory , Couetousnesse, and Vanitie of knowledge.’’Finally,wemaysuggestthat ‘‘peregrine martyrs’’ (14.10) may have been triggered by Palmer’s discussion of ‘‘such as trauaile for Religion and conscience sake,’’those‘‘notfittedtobeMartyrs ’’ and those who make ‘‘perigrinations and pilgrimages . . . for the performance of vows’’ (9–11). James Gow University of King’s College, Halifax, NS SCRIBLERIANA We welcome David Mazilla (University of Houston) as a new Contributing Editor. Adam Budd (University of Edinburgh) will be joining us to take careofScribleriansand Kit-Cats in Scotland. Samantha Batten (Auburn University) and Matthew Binney (University of Arkansas) are Assistant Editors. Adam Reich (Temple University), Shiladitya Sen (Temple University), and Holly Peterson (Auburn University Montgomery) have replaced O. L. Au, Melissa Frederick,andJustin Bauer, who are leaving The Scriblerian as Editorial Assistants; we appreciate their contributions . We also welcome the University of Houston and Auburn University as sponsors. This double issue (Spring/Autumn 2005) is the largest we have printed. It would not have been possible without the special effort and care of W. B. Gerard, E. Derek Taylor, Matthew Binney, Shiladitya Sen, and Adam Reich. We want to thank Laura Marie Cecil, Shea Harrigan, and Peter Tasch, who saved us from many slips. And we are very grateful for the guidance and assistance of Melvyn New. We stilll have a few copies of the five-year Scriblerian Bibliography and Index (1993– 1998); it can be ordered through our Temple office: $15 for individuals; $20 for libraries. And we regretfully note the death of Paul J. Korshin (University of Pennsylvania), a scholar and special friend of the Scriblerian; a subscriber since the first issue, he is responsible for, among other things, our perfect binding. ‘‘TAKE[N] IN’’ BY A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY In A Passion for Books, nineteen distinguished contributors write about books that mattered to them. Ferdinand Mount, an editor of The Times Literary Supplement,illustrating 179 an author’s attempt to endure life as well as enjoy it simultaneously, noted, ‘‘When Sterne assured his bookseller Thomas Becket that A Sentimental Journey is ‘an original work and likely to take in all kinds of Readers—the proof of the pudding is in the eating,’he surely means ‘take in’both in the sense of ‘cater for’ and in the sense of ‘fool,’ for the book appealed instantaneously to sentimentalists and cynics alike—and to postmodernist critics too, who admire the way Sterne ‘subverts’the romantic genre. Here the postmodernists are at one with Johnson, who called the vivacious Mary Monckton a dunce because she insisted that some of Sterne’s writings were ‘very pathetic .’ But Johnson and the postmodernists are only half-right: they see the irony where poor Mary doesn’t, but the pathetic and poetic are there too—just as they are in the Gertie McDowell scene in Ulysses. Joyce, like Sterne, wants to have it both ways and is quite happy for us to have it both ways too’’ (ed. Dale Salawak, New York: St. Martin’s, 1999, p. 42). MUMMIUS AND ANNIUS 2 In 2002, a 62-year-old Frenchman was treated at the emergency room of Cholet General Hospital in Western France. Unable to eat or move his bowels, he had a swollen stomach due to the 12 pounds of coins he had swallowed . His...