[15] A seaport in Britanny.

[16] A large military port and dockyard on the coast of Hampshire.

[17] The generic term among the wealthy for French menials of the weaker sex.

[18] Always allow minion for extracts and quotations.

[19] The student must be careful in calculations involving the decimal point to put it in its exact place, neither too much to the right nor too much to the left.

[20] This may be taken as the normal price paid for Literature; the other prices must be compared with it as a standard.

[21] Practically one Pound.

[22] No prices beyond this, save on first-class papers—the Spectator, Daily Mail, and one or two others.

[23] They are often inaccurate with regard to the past history of the families mentioned, and very often wrong in the spelling of the family name; but these details are furnished by the families themselves, upon whom the responsibility must rest.

[24] I omit the ex-Jumbi of Koto-Koto, a rebellious upstart whom the Imperial Government has very properly deposed.