[106]: Noth-münzen means originally coin containing alloy, struck off in hard times.—Tr.
[107]: The Hebrew language has but three vowels ("vowel-points") which, from the assistance they gave in enunciating a vast variety of words, were called matres lectionis, or mothers of the reading.—Tr.
[108]: I. e. bowing so low.—Tr.
[109]: Herkommen, as a common noun, means tradition or custom.—Tr.
[110]: An infusorial or minute animal, called in natural history rotifera (wheel-bearer).—Tr.
[111]: Famulus is the Latin name in the German. Wagner was one in Faust.—Tr.
[112]: So called in allusion to the shaking they were giving it.—Tr.
[113]: Kopfstück (lit. head-piece), a coin bearing the head of the regent.—Tr.
[114]: The billiard-pockets (like the contribution-bags) used to have bells to them.—Tr.
[115]: Who felt himself to be "a child picking up pebbles on the shore of the great ocean of truth."—Tr.