After Hookham's death Stevens became the senior partner, but in 1801 he gave up most of his interest in the business, and a few years later retired altogether.
The society published a collection of tracts for the younger clergy, and originated the British Critic, a quarterly journal.
[1] In 1772 Stevens wrote A new and faithful Translation of Letters from M. l'Abbé de ——, Hebrew Professor in the University of ——, to the Rev.
In this anonymous brochure he followed up Horne's attack on Benjamin Kennicott's project of a revised Hebrew text of the Old Testament.
The next year he published, in opposition to the recent effort to get rid of subscription to the Thirty-Nine Articles, An Essay on the Nature and Constitution of the Christian Church, wherein are set forth the form of its government, the extent of its powers, and the limits of our obedience, by a Layman.
It was signed "Ain" (Hebrew for "Nobody"), and suggested the title of a collection of Stevens's pamphlets issued in 1805 as Oudenos erga, Nobody's Works.
[1] Stevens's final publication was his edition of William Jones's works published in 1801 in twelve octavo volumes.
Prefixed to it was a life of Jones in the style of Izaak Walton (part of which had already appeared in the Anti-Jacobin Review).