Laurence Sterne in Germany Part 8

[Footnote 24: LXXIII, pp. 75-81.]

[Footnote 25: Leipzig, 1801, 8vo, I, 168; II, 170. 2 Kupf. und 2 Vignetten nach Chodowiecki von G. Bottiger.]

[Footnote 26: LXXIX, pp. 371-377.]

[Footnote 27: Lx.x.xII, I, p. 199.]

[Footnote 28: Magdeburg, I, pp. 188; II, pp. 192; III, pp. 154; IV, pp. 168; V, pp. 236.]

[Footnote 29: A Sentimental Journey, mit erlauternden Anmerkungen und einem Wortregister.]

[Footnote 30: Jena, 1795, II, pp. 427-30.]

[Footnote 31: P. 49.]

[Footnote 32: The edition is also reviewed in the _Erfurtische Gelehrte Zeitung_ (1796, p. 294.)]

[Footnote 33: The threat of Mrs. Sterne and her daughter to publish the letters to Mrs. Draper would seem to be at variance with this idea of Mrs. Sterne's character, but her resentment or indignation, and a personal satisfaction at her former rival's discomfiture are inevitable, and femininely human.]

[Footnote 34: They are reviewed in the April number of the _Monthly Review_ (LII, pp. 370-371), and in the April number of the _London Magazine_ (XLIV, pp. 200-201).]

[Footnote 35: It is noted among the publications in the July number of the _London Magazine_, XLIV, p. 371, and is reviewed in the September number of the _Monthly Review_, LIII, pp. 266-267.

It was really published on July 12. (_The Nation_, November 17, 1904.)]

[Footnote 36: The letter beginning "The first time I have dipped my pen in the ink-horn," addressed to Mrs. M-d-s and dated c.o.xwould, July 21, 1765. The _London Magazine_ (1775, pp. 530-531) also published the eleventh letter of the series, that concerning the unfortunate Harriet: "I beheld her tender look."]

[Footnote 37: Dodsley, etc., 1793.]

[Footnote 38: Two letters, however, were given in both volumes, the letter to Mrs. M-d-s, "The first time I have dipped," etc., and that to Garrick, "'Twas for all the world like a cut," etc., being in the Mme. Medalle collection, Nos. 58 and 77 (II, pp.

126-131, 188-192) and in the anonymous collection Nos. 1 and 5.

The first of these two letters was without indication of addressee in the anonymous collection, and was later directed to Eugenius (in the American edition, Harrisburg, 1805).]

[Footnote 39: LIII, pp. 340-344. The publication was October 25.

See _The Nation_, November 17, 1904.]

[Footnote 40: The _London Magazine_ gives the first announcement among the books for October (Vol. XLVI, p. 538), but does not review the collection till December (XLIV, p. 649).]

[Footnote 41: Some selections from these letters were evidently published before their translation in the _Englische Allgemeine Bibliothek_. See _Frankfurter Gel. Anz._, 1775, p. 667.]

[Footnote 42: XVIII, p. 177, 1775.]

[Footnote 43: 1775, I, pp. 243-246.]

[Footnote 44: Letters Nos. 83 and 86.]

[Footnote 45: 1775, II p. 510.]

[Footnote 46: This volume was noted by _Jenaische Zeitungen von Gelehrten Sachen_, September, 4, 1775.]

[Footnote 47: A writer in Schlichtegroll's "Nekrolog" says that Bode's own letters to "einige seiner vertrauten Freundinnen" in some respects surpa.s.s those of Yorick to Eliza.]

[Footnote 48: Another translator would in this case have made direct acknowledgment to Bode for the borrowed information, a fact indicating Bode as the translator of the volume.]

[Footnote 49: "Lorenz Sterne's oder Yorick's Briefwechsel mit Elisen und seinen ubrigen Freunden." Leipzig, Weidmanns Erben und Reich. 1775, 8vo.]

[Footnote 50: Weisse is credited with the translation in Kayser, but it is not given under his name in Goedeke.]

[Footnote 51: References to the _Gothaische Gelehrte Zeitung_ are p. 518 and p. 721, 1775.]

[Footnote 52: XXVIII, 2, p. 489, 1776.]

[Footnote 53: These are, of course, the spurious letters Nos. 8 and 11, "I beheld her tender look" and "I have not been a furlong from Shandy-Hall."]

[Footnote 54: This is a quotation from one of the letters, but the review repeats it as its own.]

[Footnote 55: For a rather unfavorable criticism of the Yorick-Eliza letters, see letter of Wilh. Ludw. Medicus to Hopfner, March 16, 1776, in "Briefe aus dem Freundeskreise von Goethe, Herder, Hopfner und Merck," ed. by K. Wagner, Leipzig, 1847.]

[Footnote 56: Hamann's Schriften, ed. by Roth, VI, p. 145: "Yorick's und Elisens Briefe sind nicht der Rede werth."]

[Footnote 57: London, Thomas Cornan, St. Paul's Churchyard, 8vo, pp. 63. These letters are given in the first American edition, Harrisburg, 1805, pp. 209-218 and 222-226.]

[Footnote 58: Leipzig, Weidmanns Erben und Reich, I, pp. 142; II, pp. 150.]

[Footnote 59: The English original is probably that by William Combe, published in 1779, two volumes. This original is reviewed in the _Neue Bibl. der schonen Wissenschaften_, XXIV, p. 186, 1780.]

[Footnote 60: XII, 1, pp. 210-211. Doubt is also suggested in the _Hallische Neue Gelehrte Zeitungen_, 1769, IV, p. 295.]

[Footnote 61: Reviewed in _Allg. Litt. Zeitung_, 1798, II, p. 14, without suggestion of doubtful authenticity.]

[Footnote 62: XX, pp. 79-103, 1792.]

[Footnote 63: They are still credited to Sterne, though with admitted doubt, in Hirsching (1809). It would seem from a letter of Hamann's that Germany also thrust another work upon Sterne. The letter is directed to Herder: "Ich habe die nichtswurdige Grille gehabt einen unformlichen Auszug einer englischen Apologie des Rousseau, die den Sterne zum Verfa.s.ser haben soll, in die _Konigsberger Zeitung_ einflicken zu la.s.sen." See Hamann's Schriften, Roth's edition, III, p. 374. Letter is dated July 29, 1767. Rousseau is mentioned in Shandy, III, p. 200, but there is no reason to believe that he ever wrote anything about him.]

[Footnote 64: The edition examined is that of William Howe, London, 1819, which contains "New Sermons to a.s.ses," and other sermons by Murray.]

[Footnote 65: For reviews see _Monthly Review_, 1768, Vol. x.x.xIX, pp. 100-105; _Gentleman's Magazine_, Vol. x.x.xVIII, p. 188 (April).

They were thus evidently published early in the year 1768.]

[Footnote 66: 1768, p. 220.]

[Footnote 67: VII, p. 360.]

[Footnote 68: Review in _Allg. deutsche Bibl._, XIII, 1, p. 241.

The reviewer is inclined to doubt their authenticity.]

[Footnote 69: A spurious third volume was the work of John Carr (1760).]

[Footnote 70: See _Monthly Review_, XXIII, p. 84, July 1760, and _London Magazine_, Monthly Catalogue for July and August, 1760.