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and his father took special pains with his education, and, as a part of his general training, he undertook in his nineteenth year a protracted journey to Italy, England, and Flanders, where he busied himself in collecting and collating manuscripts for his father's press. In 1554 he published at Paris his first independent work, the Anacreon. Then he went again to Italy, helping Aldus at Venice, discovered a copy of Diodorus Siculus at Rome, and returned to Geneva in 1555. In 1557 he seems to have had a printing-establishment of his own, and, in the spirit of modern times, advertised himself as the " Parisian printer" (tyPographus Parisaensis). The following year he assumed the title, illustris virf, Huldrici Fug geri typogruyhus, from his patron, Fugger of Augsburg. In 1559 Henry assumed charge of his father's presses, and distinguished himself as the publisher, and also as the editor and collator, of manuscripts. Athenagoras, Aristotle, tEschylus, appeared in 1557; Diodorus Siculus, 1559; Xenophon, 1561; Thucydides, 1564; Herodotus, 1566 and 1581. He improved old translations, or made new Latin translations, of many Greek authors. His most celebrated work, the thesaurus linguce grcecce, which has served up to the nineteenth century as the basis of Greek lexicography, appeared in 4 vols., 1572, with a supplement in 2 vole. Of the Greek editions of the New Testament that went forth from his presses, there deserve mention those of Beza, with his commentary, 1565, 1569, 1582, 1588-89, and the smaller editions of 1565, 1567, 1580. A triglot containing the Peshito appeared in 1569, of which some copies are in existence, bearing the date Lyons, 1571. In 1565 a large French Bible was printed. Henry's own editions of the Greek New Testament of 1576 and 1587 are noteworthy; the former containing the first scientific treatise on the language of the apostolic writers; the latter, a discussion of, the ancient divisions of the text. In 1594 he published a concordance of the New Testament, the prepare- I~ tort' studies for which his father had made. Much I earlier he translated Calvin's catechism into Greek, which was printed in 1554 in his father's printingroom.

Henry was married three times, and had fourteen children, of whom three survived him. His son Paul (b. 1567), of whose life little is known, assumed control of the presses. Two of Paul's sons were printers-Joseph at La Rochelle, and Antoine (d. 1674), who became ".Printer to the king " in Paris in 1613. Fronton Le Due's Chrysostom, and Jean Morin's Greek Bible (3 vole., 1628) were issued from Antoine's presses. His son Henry succeeded to the title of " Printer to the king " in 1649, and his work closed about 1659. He left no children, and was the last of the family who took active interest in editing and printing. The high standard that had been established by the early Stephens was maintained to the last, and the publications of the later publishers were mainly in the division of Greek and Roman classics.

ex lea ouvragea de H. Eatienne, Paris, 1853; E. Frommann, Aufsatze zur Geachichte des Buchhandela im 16. Jahrhundert, Jena, 1878; P. Schaff, Companion to the Greek Testament and the English Version, pp. 236-237, 538-539, New York, 1883; F. H. Reuach, Index der verbotenen Biicher, i. 152, 337, 418, ii. 188, et passim, Bonn, 1885; Nouveaux documents sur les Eatienne, imprimeurs pariaiens, 1617-1686, in Memoirea of the Paris Society of History, vol. xau., Paris, 1895; G. H. Putnam, Books and their Makers during the Middle Ages, ii. 15-100, New York, 1897; idem, Censorship of the Church of Rome, i. 102, 228 sqq., 298, 238, 411, ib. 1907; P..Renouard, Imprimeura parisiens depuia 1¢70 juaqu'k la fin du XVI. sibcle, Paris, 1898; A. Claudin, Hilt. de l'impr%merae en France au xv. d xvt. aiMe, Paris, 1900· L. Radigeur; MaRtrea %mpr%meura et ouvriera typographea, 1/,70-190,°., Paris, 1903.

STEPHENS, THOMAS: English Jesuit and missionary. See INDIA, L, 4, § 2.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: L. d'Achery, Spicileg%um, iii. 330, Paris, 1723; C. M. Pfaff, De atercoranistia medii au%, Tiibingen, 1750; J. M. SchrSckh, Kirchengesch%chte, xxui. 429 aqq., 35 vole., Leipaic, 1772-1803; J. Bach, Dogmengeschichte des Mittelalters, i. 185-188, Vienna, 1873; K. Werner, Gerbert van Auriltac, pp. 165-188, ib. 1878; J. Sehwane, Dogmengeachichte des Mittelaltera, p. 830, Freiburg, 1882; J. Schnitzer, Berengar von Tours, pp. 205 aqq., Stuttgart, 1892; R. MSnchemeier, Amalar von Metz, pp. lOS eqq., Miwster, 1893; KL, xi. 782-783.

STERNE, LAURENCE: Church of England, clergyman, wit, and novelist; b. at Clonmel (46 m. n.e. of Cork), Ireland, Nov. 24, 1713; d. in London Mar. 18, 1768. He was the great grandson of Richard Sterne, archbishop of. York, and his father was an officer in the army, whose death in 1731 left Laurence unprovided for. Young Sterne was a student at Halifax, but was unsystematic in his work; by his uncle he was sent to Jesus College, Cambridge (B.A., 1736; M.A., 1740), where physical weakness was indicated by a hemorrhage of the lunge before he finished his studies. He was ordered deacon in 1736 and ordained priest in 1738, this step being taken on the advice of his uncle, who had sent him to college; but his tastes and temperament were not such as really to qualify him for the ministry, the work of which was probably always irksome to him. He became vicar of Sutton-in-the Forest in Yorkshire, 1738; prebend of Givendale