[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.