[16] This was the house built by Metzger, now number 19 Barerstrasse.
[17] Fuchs, “Ein Vormärzliches Tanzidyll.”
[18] Times, 4th March 1868.
[19] So says Mr. Boase in the “Dictionary of National Biography,” but quotes no authority.
[20] “Bygone Years,” 1905.
[21] “Life and Adventures of G. A. Sala,” 1896.
[22] Times, 7th August 1849.
[23] Les Contemporains, Paris, 1857. No sources of information are indicated. De Mirecourt’s real name was Jacquot.
[24] New York Tribune, 6th December 1851.
[25] By way of digression I cannot refrain from instancing the absurd practice obtaining in some newspapers of printing the title Mrs., when applied to a woman not legally married, in inverted commas, in spite of the dictum of English law which says that any one can call themselves by any description they please.