[17] See Schiller’s Play of “Don Carlos.”
[18] Evidently a satire on the King of Prussia.
[19] A famous theological writer, who died in 1850, at the age of ninety. He was formerly Counsellor of the Consistory (Kirchenrath) at Würzburg, and for many years Professor of Church History, &c. at Heidelberg.
[20] A polite allusion to the late King of Bavaria and his Walhalla.
[21] This refers to a poem of Freiligrath’s, entitled “The Dead to the Living,” for which he was prosecuted, but acquitted, in 1848.
[22] A hill close to Berlin.
[23] I have here attempted to imitate a wretched pun in the original.
[24] A “blind passenger” means in German a person who travels without paying his fare.
[25] Berlin.
[26] It will be remembered that the sun is feminine in German.