Note 1 — Chapter IV · STERNE IN GERMANY AFTER THE PUBLICATION OF THE SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY
Reading edition
VI, 1, p. 166. 1768.
2. XII, 1, p. 142.
3. August 28, 1769. P. 574.
4. Pp. 896–9.
5. III, pp. 689–91, October 31, 1768.
6. V, No. 5, p. 37, 1769, review is signed “Z.”
7. 1794, IV, p. 62, October 7.
8. Greifswald, VI, p. 300.
9. See p. 42.
10. Anhang LIII-LXXXVI. Vol. V, pp. 2611–2614.
11. This is repeated by Jördens.
12. 1799. I, p. 36.
13. Teut. Merkur, VIII, pp. 247–251.
14. April 21, 1775, pp. 267–70.
15. Hirsching (see above) says it rivals the original.
16. The references to the Deutsches Museum are respectively IX, pp. 273–284, April, 1780, and X, pp. 553–5.
17. See Jördens I, p. 117, probably depending on the critique in the Allg. deutsche Bibl. Anhang, LIII-LXXXVI, Vol. V, pp. 2611–2614.
18. Erholungen III, pp. 1–51.
19. Supplementband für 1790–93, p. 410.
20. Werke, Zürich, 1825–29, pp. 312 ff.
21. “Tristram Shandy’s Leben und Meynungen von neuem verdeutscht, Leipzig, 1801, I, pp. 572; II, pp. 532; III, pp. 430. Mit 3 Kupfern und 3 Vignetten nach Chodowiecki von J. F. Schröter.” A new edition appeared at Hahn’s in Hanover in 1810. This translation is not given by Goedeke under Benzler’s name.
22. Wieland does modify his enthusiasm by acknowledgment of inadequacies and devotes about a page of his long review to the correction of seven incorrect renderings. Teut. Merkur, VIII, pp. 247–51, 1774, IV.
23. The following may serve as examples of Bode’s errors. He translated, “Pray, what was your father saying?” (I, 6) by “Was wollte denn Ihr Vater damit sagen?” a rendering obviously inadequate. “It was a little hard on her” (I, p. 52) becomes in Bode, “Welches sie nun freilich schwer ablegen konnte;” and “Great wits jump” (I, 168) is translated “grosse Meister fehlen auch.”
24. LXXIII, pp. 75–81.
25. Leipzig, 1801, 8o, I, 168; II, 170. 2 Kupf. und 2 Vignetten nach Chodowiecki von G. Böttiger.
26. LXXIX, pp. 371–377.
27. LXXXII, I, p. 199.
28. Magdeburg, I, pp. 188; II, pp. 192; III, pp. 154; IV, pp. 168; V, pp. 236.
29. A Sentimental Journey, mit erläuternden Anmerkungen und einem Wortregister.
30. Jena, 1795, II, pp. 427–30.
31. P. 49.
32. The edition is also reviewed in the Erfurtische Gelehrte Zeitung (1796, p. 294.)
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.
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).
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.)
36. The letter beginning “The first time I have dipped my pen in the ink-horn,” addressed to Mrs. M-d-s and dated Coxwould, 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.”
37. Dodsley, etc., 1793.
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).
39. LIII, pp. 340–344. The publication was October 25. See The Nation, November 17, 1904.
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).
41. Some selections from these letters were evidently published before their translation in the Englische Allgemeine Bibliothek. See Frankfurter Gel. Anz., 1775, p. 667.
42. XVIII, p. 177, 1775.
43. 1775, I, pp. 243–246.
44. Letters Nos. 83 and 86.
45. 1775, II p. 510.
46. This volume was noted by Jenaische Zeitungen von Gelehrten Sachen, September, 4, 1775.
47. A writer in Schlichtegroll’s “Nekrolog” says that Bode’s own letters to “einige seiner vertrauten Freundinnen” in some respects surpass those of Yorick to Eliza.
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.
49. “Lorenz Sterne’s oder Yorick’s Briefwechsel mit Elisen und seinen übrigen Freunden.” Leipzig, Weidmanns Erben und Reich. 1775, 8o.
50. Weisse is credited with the translation in Kayser, but it is not given under his name in Goedeke.
51. References to the Gothaische Gelehrte Zeitung are p. 518 and p. 721, 1775.
52. XXVIII, 2, p. 489, 1776.
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.”
54. This is a quotation from one of the letters, but the review repeats it as its own.
55. For a rather unfavorable criticism of the Yorick-Eliza letters, see letter of Wilh. Ludw. Medicus to Höpfner, March 16, 1776, in “Briefe aus dem Freundeskreise von Goethe, Herder, Höpfner und Merck,” ed. by K. Wagner, Leipzig, 1847.
56. Hamann’s Schriften, ed. by Roth, VI, p. 145: “Yorick’s und Elisens Briefe sind nicht der Rede werth.”
57. London, Thomas Cornan, St. Paul’s Churchyard, 8o, pp. 63. These letters are given in the first American edition, Harrisburg, 1805, pp. 209–218 and 222–226.
58. Leipzig, Weidmanns Erben und Reich, I, pp. 142; II, pp. 150.
59. The English original is probably that by William Combe, published in 1779, two volumes. This original is reviewed in the Neue Bibl. der schönen Wissenschaften, XXIV, p. 186, 1780.
60. XII, 1, pp. 210–211. Doubt is also suggested in the Hallische Neue Gelehrte Zeitungen, 1769, IV, p. 295.
61. Reviewed in Allg. Litt. Zeitung, 1798, II, p. 14, without suggestion of doubtful authenticity.
62. XX, pp. 79–103, 1792.
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 nichtswürdige Grille gehabt einen unförmlichen Auszug einer englischen Apologie des Rousseau, die den Sterne zum Verfasser haben soll, in die Königsberger Zeitung einflicken zu lassen.” 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.
64. The edition examined is that of William Howe, London, 1819, which contains “New Sermons to Asses,” and other sermons by Murray.
65. For reviews see Monthly Review, 1768, Vol. XXXIX, pp. 100–105; Gentleman’s Magazine, Vol. XXXVIII, p. 188 (April). They were thus evidently published early in the year 1768.
66. 1768, p. 220.
67. VII, p. 360.
68. Review in Allg. deutsche Bibl., XIII, 1, p. 241. The reviewer is inclined to doubt their authenticity.
69. A spurious third volume was the work of John Carr (1760).
70. See Monthly Review, XXIII, p. 84, July 1760, and London Magazine, Monthly Catalogue for July and August, 1760. Scott’s Magazine, XXII, p. 389, July, 1760.
71. XIV, 2, p. 621.
72. But in a later review in the same periodical (V, p. 726) this book, though not mentioned by name, yet clearly meant, is mentioned with very decided expression of doubt. The review quoted above is III, p. 737. 1769.
73. This work was republished in Braunschweig at the Schulbuchhandlung in 1789.
74. According to the Universal Magazine (XLVI, p. 111) the book was issued in February, 1770. It was published in two volumes.
75. Sidney Lee in Nat’l Dict. of Biography. It was also given in the eighth volume of the Edinburgh edition of Sterne, 1803.
76. See London Magazine, June, 1770, VI, p. 319; also Monthly Review, XLII, pp. 360–363, May, 1770. The author of this latter critique further proves the fraudulence by asserting that allusion is made in the book to “facts and circumstances which did not happen until Yorick was dead.”
77. It is obviously not the place here for a full discussion of this question. Hédouin in the appendix of his “Life of Goethe” (pp. 291 ff) urges the claims of the book and resents Fitzgerald’s rather scornful characterization of the French critics who received the work as Sterne’s (see Life of Sterne, 1864, II, p. 429). Hédouin refers to Jules Janin (“Essai sur la vie et les ouvrages de Sterne”) and Balzac (“Physiologie du mariage,” Meditation xvii,) as citing from the work as genuine. Barbey d’Aurevilly is, however, noted as contending in la Patrie against the authenticity. This is probably the article to be found in his collection of Essays, “XIX Siècle, Les oeuvres et les hommes,” Paris, 1890, pp. 73–93. Fitzgerald mentions Chasles among French critics who accept the book. Springer is incorrect in his assertion that the Koran appeared seven years after Sterne’s death, but he is probably building on the incorrect statement in the Quarterly Review (XCIV, pp. 303 ff). Springer also asserts erroneously that it was never published in Sterne’s collected works. He is evidently disposed to make a case for the Koran and finds really his chief proof in the fact that both Goethe and Jean Paul accepted it unquestioningly. Bodmer quotes Sterne from the Koran in a letter to Denis, April 4, 1771, “M. Denis Lit. Nachlass,” ed. by Retzer, Wien, 1801, II, p. 120, and other German authors have in a similar way made quotations from this work, without questioning its authenticity.
78. III, p. 537, 1771.
79. X, p. 173.
80. Leipzig, Schwickert, 1771, pp. 326, 8o.
81. V, p. 726.
82. Hamburg, Herold, 1778, pp. 248, 12o.
83. 1779, p. 67.
84. Anhang to XXV-XXXVI, Vol. II, p. 768.
85. As products of the year 1760, one may note:
Tristram Shandy at Ranelagh, 8o, Dunstan.
Tristram Shandy in a Reverie, 8o, Williams.
Explanatory Remarks upon the Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, by Jeremiah Kunastrokins, 12o, Cabe.
A Genuine Letter from a Methodist Preacher in the Country to Laurence Sterne, 8o, Vandenberg.
A Shandean essay on Human Passions, etc., by Caleb MacWhim, 4o, Cooke.
Yorick’s Meditations upon Interesting and Important Subjects.
The Life and Opinions of Miss Sukey Shandy, Stevens.
The Clockmaker’s Outcry Against Tristram Shandy, Burd.
The Rake of Taste, or the Elegant Debauchee (another ape of the Shandean style, according to London Magazine).
A Supplement to the Life and Opinion of Tristram Shandy, by the author of Yorick’s Meditations, 12o.
86. Monthly Review, XL, p. 166.
87. “Der Reisegefährte,” Berlin, 1785–86. “Komus oder der Freund des Scherzes und der Laune,” Berlin, 1806. “Museum des Witzes der Laune und der Satyre,” Berlin, 1810. For reviews of Coriat in German periodicals see Gothaische Gelehrte Zeitungen, 1774, p. 378; Leipziger Musen-Almanach, 1776, p. 85; Almanach der Deutschen Musen, 1775, p. 84; Unterhaltungen, VII, p. 167.
88. See Allg. Litt. Zeitung, 1796, I, p. 256.
89. The identity could be proven or disproven by comparison. There is a copy of the German work in the Leipzig University Library. Ireland’s book is in the British Museum.
90. See the English Review, XIII, p. 69, 1789, and the Monthly Review, LXXIX, p. 468, 1788.
91. Allg. Litt. Zeitung, 1791, I, p. 197. A sample of the author’s absurdity is given there in quotation.
92. Joh. Friedrich Schink, better known as a dramatist.
93. See the story of the gentlewoman from Thionville, p. 250, and elsewhere.
94. The references to the Deutsche Monatsschrift are respectively, I, pp. 181–188, and II, pp. 65–71.
95. For review of Schink’s book see Allg. Litt. Zeitung, 1794, IV, p. 62, October 7. Böttiger seems to think that Schink’s work is but another working over of Stevenson’s continuation.
96. It is not given by Goedeke or Meusel, but is given among Schink’s works in “Neuer Nekrolog der Deutschen,” Weimar, 1835–1837, XIII, pp. 161–165.
97. In both these books the English author may perhaps be responsible for some of the deviation from Sterne’s style.
98. CV, p. 271.
99. Kayser notes another translation, “Fragmente in Yorick’s Manier, aus dem Eng., mit Kpf., 8o.” London, 1800. It is possibly identical with the one noted above. A second edition of the original came out in 1798.
100. The original of this was published by Kearsley in London, 1790, 12o, a teary contribution to the story of Maria of Moulines.