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_Scott's Magazine_, XXII, p. 389, July, 1760.]

[Footnote 71: XIV, 2, p. 621.]

[Footnote 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.]

[Footnote 73: This work was republished in Braunschweig at the Schulbuchhandlung in 1789.]

[Footnote 74: According to the _Universal Magazine_ (XLVI, p. 111) the book was issued in February, 1770. It was published in two volumes.]

[Footnote 75: Sidney Lee in Nat'l Dict. of Biography. It was also given in the eighth volume of the Edinburgh edition of Sterne, 1803.]

[Footnote 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 a.s.serting that allusion is made in the book to ”facts and circ.u.mstances which did not happen until Yorick was dead.”]

[Footnote 77: It is obviously not the place here for a full discussion of this question. Hedouin 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). Hedouin 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 Siecle, 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 a.s.sertion 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 a.s.serts 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.

Nachla.s.s,” 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.]

[Footnote 78: III, p. 537, 1771.]

[Footnote 79: X, p. 173.]

[Footnote 80: Leipzig, Schwickert, 1771, pp. 326, 8vo.]

[Footnote 81: V, p. 726.]

[Footnote 82: Hamburg, Herold, 1778, pp. 248, 12mo.]

[Footnote 83: 1779, p. 67.]

[Footnote 84: Anhang to XXV-x.x.xVI, Vol. II, p. 768.]

[Footnote 85: As products of the year 1760, one may note:

Tristram Shandy at Ranelagh, 8vo, Dunstan.

Tristram Shandy in a Reverie, 8vo, Williams.

Explanatory Remarks upon the Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, by Jeremiah Kunastrokins, 12mo, Cabe.

A Genuine Letter from a Methodist Preacher in the Country to Laurence Sterne, 8vo, Vandenberg.

A Shandean essay on Human Pa.s.sions, etc., by Caleb MacWhim, 4to, 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.