[37.] Wieland’s own genuine appreciation of Sterne and understanding of his characteristics is indicated incidentally in a review of a Swedish book in the Teutscher Merkur, 1782, II, p. 192, in which he designates the description of sentimental journeying in the seventh book of Shandy as the best of Sterne’s accomplishment, as greater than the Journey itself, a judgment emanating from a keen and true knowledge of Sterne.
[38.] Lebensbild, V, Erlangen, 1846, p. 89. Letter to Hartknoch, Paris, November, 1769. In connection with his journey and his “Reisejournal,” he speaks of his “Tristramschen Meynungen.” See Lebensbild, Vol. V, p. 61.
[39.] Suphan, IV, p. 190. For further reference to Sterne in Herder’s letters, see “Briefe Herders an Hamann,” edited by Otto Hoffmann, Berlin, 1889, pp. 28, 51, 57, 71, 78, 194.
[40.] Lachmann edition, Berlin, 1840, XII, pp. 212, 240.
[41.] Eckermann: “Gespräche mit Goethe,” Leipzig, 1885, II, p. 29; or Biedermann, “Goethe’s Gespräche,” Leipzig, 1890, VI, p. 359.
[42.] “Briefwechsel zwischen Goethe und Zelter, in den Jahren, 1796–1832.” Ed. by Fr. W. Riemer, Berlin, 1833–4, Vol. V, p. 349. Both of these quotations are cited by Siegmund Levy, “Goethe und Oliver Goldsmith;” Goethe-Jahrbuch, VI, 1885, pp. 282 ff. The translation in this case is from that of A. D. Coleridge.
[43.] Griesebach: “Das Goetheische Zeitalter der deutschen Dichtung,” Leipzig, 1891, p. 29.
[44.] II, 10th book, Hempel, XXI, pp. 195 ff.
[45.] “Briefe an Joh. Heinrich Merck von Göthe, Herder, Wieland und andern bedeutenden Zeitgenossen,” edited by Dr. Karl Wagner, Darmstadt, 1835, p. 5; and “Briefe an und von Joh. Heinrich Merck,” issued by the same editor, Darmstadt, 1838, pp. 5, 21.
[46.] In the “Wanderschaft,” see J. H. Jung-Stilling, Sämmtliche Werke. Stuttgart, 1835, I, p. 277.