20. Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy by Mr. Yorick (1768), ed. with introduction by Ian Jack (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1968), 84. The satirical butt of Sterne’s Journey was Tobias Smollett’s Travels through France and Italy (1766), now in a critical edition prepared by Frank Felsenstein (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979); see xx. “I must confess, that my appetite for French music was not very keen when I now landed on the continent,” begins Charles Burney, on the first page of his second journal, undertaken in 1772—The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands, and United Provinces (see above, note 18)—and it is difficult not to think that he is playing here with the famous and riddling opening lines of Sterne’s Journey: “—They order, said I, this matter better in France—” and its sequel later on the page: “by three I had got sat down to my dinner upon a fricassee’d chicken so incontestably in France … ” If Burney’s “Journal” is avowedly an effort to collect material for General History of Music, often enough his encounters are of the sentimental kind, in a prose meant to be savored.