Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- NOTE ON THE TEXT -- STERNE on the composition of Tristram Shandy, vols I, II, 1759 -- Letter to Dodsley,? October 1759 -- STERNE to his readers, 1759 60 -- Tristram Shandy, vol. I -- Tristram Shandy, vol. II -- Tristram Shandy, vol. II -- WILLIAM KENRICK, the first review of Tristram Shandy, January 1760 -- STERNE defends Tristram Shandy, January 1760 -- Reviews in the magazines, January-February 1760 -- Notice, Royal Female Magazine, February 1760 -- HORACE WALPOLE on Tristram Shandy, April 1760 -- The design of Tristram Shandy, March-April 1760 -- Letter, April 1760 -- The serious attacks, spring 1760 -- Review, Critical Review, April 1760 -- The bantering attacks, spring 1760 -- Explanatory Remarks on the Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy by Jeremiah Kunastrokius, April 1760 -- The Clockmakers Outcry Against the Author of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, May 1760 -- Tristram Shandy's Bon Mots, Repartees, odd Adventures, and Humorous Storiesand a New Dialogue of the Dead, between Dean Swift, and Henry Fielding, Esq, June 1760 -- The first biography of Sterne, May 1760 -- The Sermons of Mr. Yorick, vols I, II, spring and summer 1760 -- Review, Critical Review, May 1760 -- Review, Monthly Review, May 1760 -- Review, Royal Female Magazine, May 1760 -- REVEREND HENRY VENN, letter to Mrs Knipe, June 1760 -- BOSWELL on Sterne, spring 1760 -- Sterne as Juvenilian satirist, June 1760 -- Sterne and BISHOP WARBURTON, June 1760 -- WARBURTON, letter to Sterne -- STERNE, letter to Warburton -- THOMAS GRAY on Sterne, June 1760 -- LADY BRADSHAIGH on Sterne, June 1760 -- GOLDSMITH attacks Sterne, June 1760 -- Sterne and the Monthly reviewers, June 1760 -- Attack on Sterne and the Methodists, July 1760 -- Sterne and an appreciative reader, summer 1760.

STERNE, letter to Brown, September 1760 -- HORACE MANN on Sterne's 'humbugging,' November 1760 -- Tristram Shandy as satire, 1760 -- EDMUND BURKE on Tristram Shandy, 1760 -- The composition of Tristram Shandy, vols III, IV, 1760 -- Sterne to his critics and readers, Tristram Shandy, vols III, IV, 1760 1 -- Tristram Shandy, vol. III -- Tristram Shandy, vol. III -- Tristram Shandy, vol. IV -- Tristram Shandy, vol. IV -- Tristram Shandy, vol. IV -- Tristram Shandy, vol. IV -- Reviews of Tristram Shandy, vols III, IV, February-April 1761 -- Notice, British Magazine, February 1761 -- Review, Critical Review, April 1761 -- SAMUEL RICHARDSON on Sterne, January-February 1761 -- Some private opinions, February-June 1761 -- MARK HILDESLEY, April 1761 -- A mock funeral discourse, October 1761 -- The composition of Tristram Shandy, vols V, VI, summer 1761 -- Sterne to his readers, 1761 -- Tristram Shandy, vol. VI -- Assessments of Tristram Shandy, vols V, VI, 1761 2 -- Review by JOHN LANGHORNE in Monthly Review, January 1762 -- RICHARD GRIFFITH: Sterne's appeal to pit, box, and gallery, 1761 2 -- A poetic tribute, February 1762 -- Sterne and the great humorists, May 1762 -- Sterne's bad example, June 1762 -- DAVID HUME on Sterne, November 1762, January 1773 -- Sterne's nonsense, December 1762 -- CHARLES JOHNSTONE: Sterne in the character of a wit, 1762 -- Sterne's Rabelaisian caricatures, 1762 -- CHARLES CHURCHILL on Sterne, 1762 -- A poetic tribute to Tristram Shandy, July 1763 -- Sterne's upstart book, 1764 -- Sterne no fit ambassador from hell, 1764 -- The composition of Tristram Shandy, vols VII, VIII, 1762 5 -- STERNE, letter to Robert Foley, November 1764 -- Reviews of Tristram Shandy, vols VII, VIII, January-April 1765 -- Review by RALPH GRIFFITHS in Monthly Review, February 1765.

Notice by JEAN BAPTISTE SUARD in Gazette Litteraire de l'Europe, as translated in London Chronicle, 1765 -- MRS MONTAGU on Sterne, April 1765 -- Letter to Mrs Sarah Scott -- Sermons of Mr. Yorick, vols III, IV, 1765 6 -- WILLIAM ROSE, review, Monthly Review, March 1766 -- Sterne and a Black admirer, July 1766, June 1778 -- STERNE, letter to Sancho, July 1766 -- IGNATIUS SANCHO, letter, June 1778 -- Tristram Shandy, vol. IX, January-March 1767 -- Notice, Critical Review, February 1767 -- Notice, Gentleman's Magazine, February 1767 -- RALPH GRIFFITHS, review, Monthly Review, February 1767 -- Letter, Lloyd's Evening Post, March 1767 -- Gentleman's Magazine, March 1767 -- STERNE, letter to Sir William Stanhope (?), September 1767 -- STERNE, letter to Mrs William James, November 1767 -- STERNE, letter, November 1767 -- STERNE, letter to Sir George Macartney, December 1767 -- STERNE, A Sentimental Journey -- JOHN HALL-STEVENSON on Sterne, January 1768 -- Sterne and an American admirer, 1767 8 -- STERNE, letter to Eustace, February 1768 -- Reviews of the Sentimental Journey, spring 1768 -- Notice, London Magazine, March 1768 -- RALPH GRIFFITHS, review, Monthly Review, March, April 1768 -- Notice, Political Register, May 1768 -- Some private opinions of the Sentimental Journey, spring 1768 -- ELIZABETH CARTER, letter to Mrs Elizabeth Vesey, April 1768 -- MRS ELIZABETH BURNEY and MRS FANNY GREVILLE on the Sentimental Journey, spring 1768 -- WILLIAM WARBURTON, letter to Charles Yorke, April 1768 -- Gentleman's Magazine, April 1768 -- MRS ELIZABETH MONTAGU, letter, 1768? -- DAVID GARRICK, 1768 -- Sterne's headstone, 1769 -- JOHN TRUMBULL on Sterne, 1769, 1773 -- RICHARD GRIFFITH and Sterne's 'posthumous works,' 1770, 1772 -- GRIFFITH in The Posthumous Works of a Late Celebrated Genius, 1770 -- GRIFFITH in Something New, 1772.

THOMAS JEFFERSON on Sterne, 1771, 1787 -- Letter to Peter Carr, August 1787 -- Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, 1806 -- SAMUEL JOHNSON on Sterne, 1773, 1776, 1781 -- Conversation with Boswell, March 1776 -- GEORGE COLMAN the Elder on Sterne, July 1775 -- Sterne's Letters, 1775 -- RALPH GRIFFITHS, review, Monthly Review, November 1775 -- HENRY MACKENZIE, letter to Elizabeth Rose, November 1775 -- COURTNEY MELMOTH on Sterne, 1775, 1776 -- Observations on the Night Thoughts of Dr. Young, 1776 -- BOSWELL on Sterne in The Hypochondriack, 1778, 1780 -- JOHN CLELAND on Sterne, 1779 -- Some attacks during the 1770s -- Anonymous Joineriana: or the Book of Scraps, 1772 -- THOMAS O'BRIEN MACMAHON, 1774 -- REVEREND PHILIP PARSONS, 1779 -- Some neutral critics of the 1770s -- JOHN NOORTHOUCK, 1776 -- Some tributes of the 1770s -- Westminster Magazine, November 1774 -- JOHN OGILVIE, 1774 -- JOSEPH CRADOCK, 1774 -- Anonymous Yorick's Skull -- or, College Oscitations, 1777 -- JOHN HENDERSON reads from Sterne, 1770 85 -- Sterne's Complete Works, 1780 -- Sterne's imitators, 1781 -- Sterne a wit, not a genius, 1781 -- VICESIMUS KNOX on Sterne, 1782, 1788? -- Essays Moral and Literary, 1782 -- Essays Moral and Literary, 1782 -- Winter Evenings, 1788? -- Sterne anthologized, 1782, 1787 -- The Beauties of Sterne, 1787 -- HANNAH MORE on Sterne, 1782, 1808 -- ROBERT BURNS on Sterne, 1783, 1787, 1788 -- Letter to Mrs Dunlop, April 1787 -- CLARA REEVE on Sterne, 1785 -- MRS PIOZZI on Sterne, 1786, 1791 -- Diary, October 1791 -- GEORGE GREGORY on Sterne, 1787, 1788, 1809 -- Sermons, 1787 -- ANNA SEWARD defends Sterne, 1787, 1788 -- Letter to Gregory, October 1788 -- Johnson's biographer on Sterne, 1787 -- HENRY MACKENZIE on Sterne, 1788, c. 1825 31 -- Quotation in The Anecdotes and Egotisms of Henry Mackenzie, c. 1825 31 -- Some attacks and defenses of the 1780s.

WILLIAM CREECH, August 1783 -- Anonymous Unfortunate Sensibility, 1784 -- ELY BATES, 1786 -- JOHN HOWE, letter to the Reverend Thomas Crampton, October 1788 -- CHARLES DIBDIN on Sterne and Johnson, 1790 -- JOHN FERRIAR and Sterne's plagiarism, 1791, 1798, 1812 -- Illustrations of Sterne, 1798 -- Illustrations of Sterne, 1812 -- JOSEPH DENNIE on Sterne, 1792, 1796 -- The Lay Preacher, 1796 -- Miscellanies -- or Literary Recreations, 1796 -- JEREMIAH NEWMAN on Sterne, 1796, 1805 -- The Lounger's Common-Place Book, 1805 -- WILLIAM GODWIN on Sterne, 1797 -- WILLIAM WILBERFORCE on Sterne, 1797 -- The Encyclopaedia Britannica on Sterne, 1797 -- NATHAN DRAKE: Sterne and the pathetic, Literary Hours, 1798, 1804 -- Walpoliana: 'a dead ass and a living mother,' 1799 -- ROBERT SOUTHEY on Sterne, 1799, 1834 -- American attacks of the 1790s on Sterne's morality -- American Museum, August 1791 -- REVEREND JOHN BENNETT, Letters to a Young Lady, 1791 -- Some tributes of the 1790s -- WILLIAM COMBE, Fragments: in the Manner of Sterne, 1797 -- 'R. F.,' letter, Gentleman's Magazine, June 1798 -- WILLIAM JACKSON, The Four Ages, 1798 -- Some comments of the 1790s on Sterne's style and substance -- JOHN NOORTHOUCK, review, Monthly Review, July 1791 -- DUGALD STEWART, Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, 1792 -- THOMAS WALLACE, 'An Essay on the Variations of English Prose,' June 1796 -- MARY BERRY, 1798 -- D.WHYTE, The Fallacy of French Freedom, and Dangerous Tendency of Sterne's Writings, 1799 -- CHARLES LAMB on Sterne, 1801, 1822 -- Some American views: Sterne the libertine, 1802, 1803, 1822 -- JOHN RANDOLPH, letter to Theodore Dudley, February 1822 -- Sterne's sentimental works, 1805 -- Applause and censure, 1807 -- PRISCILLA PARLANTE defends Sterne, 1810 -- MRS BARBAULD on Sterne, 1810 -- The Port Folio on Sterne, 1810, 1811.

Anonymous 'Critical Comments on Sterne, Smollett, and Fielding,' November 1811.