[3] [Quoted from the British Blue Book.—Translator’s Note.]
[4] [In Racine’s Britannicus, Nero, although his wife Octavia has done no wrong, proposes to divorce her and marry Junia. Junia replies:
“J’ai mérité
Ni cet excès d’honneur, ni cette indignité.”
—Translator’s Note.]
[5] Report of Sir E. Goschen to Sir E. Grey, 8th August 1914, published by the British Government (Great Britain and the European Crisis).
[6] These laws deal with the military and naval forces of the Empire, finance, commerce, questions of domicile, means of communication, and justice.
[7] [In Continental politics, blue is the colour of the Conservatives proper, black that of the Clericals.—Translator’s Note.]
[8] [The term applied in Continental politics to the temporary combination of several parties or groups for some particular purpose.—Translator’s Note.]
[9] [This term arose out of the Social Democrats’ Congress at Baden in 1912. The “revisionists,” headed by Eduard Bernstein, proposed to abandon the old intransigent attitude, and to compromise with the Government in certain matters, especially taxation.—Translator’s Note.]