Footnote [3] Another account (see H. Döring's article "Hoffmann," in Ersch und Gruber's Allgem. Encyk.) states 21st Jan., 1778. The date in the text is the one, however, that is generally accepted, and now without question; it is the one confirmed by Hoffmann himself (cf. Letter 15 in Leben).]
Footnote [4] These two books, together with Schubert's Symbolik des Traums, were favourites with him throughout life. In his youth he was a most diligent student of the new literature of his native country; English he also read to a large extent, Shakespearian quotations being very frequent in his letters; and we find the names of Sterne, Swift, Smollett, &c. Later in life he hardly read anything unless it were exceptionally good, and then only when recommended to do so by his friends. Political papers he never read, and scarcely ever criticisms on his own works.]
Footnote [5] That is, after Hippel had completed his academic career, and left Königsberg.]
Footnote [6] That is, after the king's death in 1797. She afterwards married the Holbein here mentioned.]
Footnote [7] Romeo and Juliet, iii. 9.]
Footnote [8] Leben, iii. pp. 231-233.]
Footnote [9] A suburb or park of Warsaw, beneath the tall beeches of which Hoffmann loved to lie dreaming, or sketch from Nature.]
Footnote [10] An equestrian statue of John Sobieski, the deliverer of Vienna from the Turks.]
Footnote [11] Polish for "moustaches.">[
Footnote [12] Leben, iii. pp. 251-254.]