Page 487, line 20.—Hemsterhuis, a Dutch critic and philologist, of remarkable precocity, was born in Groningen in 1685, entered the University at fourteen, and at nineteen became Professor of Mathematics and Philosophy at Amsterdam. He died at Leyden in 1766.
Page 499, line 29.—Saint Alban is said to have been the first martyr for Christianity in Britain. He renounced Paganism in Rome, and suffered martyrdom during the persecutions under Dioclesian. A monastery was built in his memory, and around it grew up the town of St. Alban's.
Page 500, line 1.—Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, founded the order of el toysón de oro, on occasion of his marriage with the Princess Isabella of Portugal, January 10, 1430.
Page 508, line 4.—Nicholas Jerome Gundling, a learned and in his day noted professor of law and eloquence, was born near Nuremberg, and died in 1729 at Halle, where he had been Rector of the University. He left many works, among them "Otia, or a Collection of Discourses on Physical, Moral, Political, and Historical Topics," in 3 vols., 8vo.
FOOTNOTES:
[1]: See Titan, Vol. I p. 38.—Tr.
[2]: The Greek Polus (in Aulus Gellius, Book VII. Chap. V.), who, having to enact Electra with the bones of Orestes, took instead the ashes of his own son, who had just died, and uttered real sorrow.—Tr.
[3]: Julius did not become blind till his twelfth year, and had therefore conceptions of the face.
[4]: See the blind girl's song in Bulwer's "Last Days of Pompeii."—Tr.
[5]: Planets with their moons.