Page 92, line 7.—A music-pen is an instrument for ruling five parallel lines at once.
Page 93, line 28.—"Real territion" (or terrification) is explained in a note to Vol. II. p. 1.
Page 95, line 1.—The special kind of floor which Jean Paul's fancy calls up is the threshing-floor.—Line 7. In regard to the "leather aprons," it may be proper to mention that miners, to whom the musicians had been compared on the previous page, wear them behind.
Page 98, line 30.—"The new commission"; i. e. the newly appointed tutor, Falterle.
Page 100, line 15.—"Pump-chambers" is a figurative expression here for top-boots.—Line 21. The word rendered "chub" may mean tadpole.
Page 101, line 23.—A "pike au four" (four meaning oven) is simply a baked pike.
Page 102, line 6.—"Shop-keeper" here does not mean the man who keeps shop, but an article that keeps the shop; i. e. remains on the shelf as unsalable lumber. "Keep" is used in the same sense as when we say one keeps his bed or keeps house when sick.—"Paste-eels" are minute creatures found on scraping away the paste from under the binding of an old book.
Page 103, line 13. "St. John."—See Mrs. Jameson's Poetry of Legendary Art, Vol. I. p. 168. "St. John had a tame partridge, which he cherished much; and he amused himself with feeding and tending it. A certain huntsman, passing by with his bow and arrows, was astonished to see the great Apostle, so venerable for his age and sanctity, engaged in such an amusement. The Apostle asked him if he always kept his bow bent. He answered, that would be the way to render it useless. 'If,' replied St. John, 'you unbend your bow to prevent its being useless, so do I thus unbend my mind for the same reason.'"
Page 107, line 18. "Wehmeier's."—Jean Paul uses here the old-fashioned double genitive. Wehmeier's seiner (Wehmeier's's) like our antiquated hissen, which we still sometimes hear from the lips of old people.
Page 111, line 26.—"The history of countries"; i. e. of individual countries,—the beginning, e. g., with that of one's own country as a centre, and going backward.