[6]: This is how all these pieces were really arranged in the first, unimproved edition; but I am sure Pauline won’t be offended that, in the second edition (so strikingly improved) I have adverted more to the entire German empire, and arranged them very differently.
[7]: I earnestly beg that section of the public the description of which is here levelled at the head of the shopkeeper-captain not to suppose it is meant for them; they must see that I am only joking, and my intention, of course is clear.
[8]: The Koran says, the devils were compelled to serve and obey Solomon. After his death he was stuffed, and, by means of a stick in his hand, and another propping him up about the os coccygis, kept on such an apparent footing of being alive, that the devils themselves were taken in by it, until the hinder axis of him was eaten by worms, and the sovereign rolled over topsy-turvy.—See Boysen’s Koran in Michaelis’ ‘Orient. Bibl.’
[9]: Untranslatable pun.
[10]: Or “Poor’s Advocate” (more literally). The appointment so named, exists, or lately existed, in Scotland.
[11]: The “Grandfather Dance” is equivalent to the English “Sir Roger de Coverley.”
[12]: Wilhelm’s ‘Recreations in Natural History. Insects.’ Vol. i.
[13]: Siebenkæs means “seven cheeses.”
[14]: Sky-blue is the colour of the order of the Jesuits, as also of the Indian Krisna, and of anger. The hypothesis of the natural philosopher Marat, that blue and red together make black, should be experimented upon, by mixing the cardinal’s red with the Jesuit’s blue. Ho himself, subsequently, during the French Revolution, produced from blue, red, and white the most beautiful ivory black, or the Indian ink with which Napoleon afterwards painted.
[15]: He styles mankind his brethren, as many monks, princes, and religious persons are given to do to each other, and perhaps he is right in so doing, seeing that he treats these brethren of his just as many eastern princes treat theirs, and, in fact, more kindly, beheading, blinding, and cutting them up in a spiritual sense only, not in corporeal.