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It has already been noted that Yorick’s sympathy for the brute creation found cordial response in Germany, such regard being accepted as a part of his message. That the spread of such sentimental notions was not confined to the printed word, but passed over into actual regulation of conduct is admirably illustrated by an anecdote related in Wieland’s Teutscher Merkur in the January number for 1776, by a correspondent who signs himself “S.” A
Blankenburg, the author of the treatise on the novel to which reference has been made, was regarded by contemporary and subsequent criticism as an imitator of Sterne in his oddly titled novel “Beyträge zur Geschichte des teutschen Reiches und teutscher Sitten,” although the general tenor of his essay, in reasonableness and balance, seemed to promise a more independent, a
Timme’s book was sufficiently popular to demand a second edition, but it never received the critical examination its merits deserved. Wieland’s Teutscher Merkur and the Bibliothek der schönen Wissenschaften ignore it completely. The Gothaische Gelehrte Zeitungen announces the book in its issue of August 2, 1780, but the book itself is not reviewed in its columns. The Jenaische Zeitungen von gelehrten Sachen accords it a colorless and unappreciative review in which Timme is reproached for lack of order in his work (a
[Footnote 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.
"A Charmans ein Teutscher." "A German ine Tycher is the place you come from, I s'pose?" "Nein ein Teutscher isht a Charman." "Oh, yes! I understand. How long have you been in Ameriky?" "Twelf moont's." "Why, that's most long enough to make you citizens. Where do you live?" "Nowhere; I lifs jest asht it happens soometimes here, ant soometimes dere." "Ay, ay!
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