[Footnote 69]: Here begins Jean Paul's fourth volume of Titan, to which he prefixed the following note (which needs for explanation only the statement that the Author—agreeably to an intimation in the Introductory Programme—accompanied each of the first two volumes with a so-called Comic Appendix, full of all sorts of quizzes having no connection with the Romance):—"This volume concludes the whole Titan, exclusive of any further comic appendices, for which, however, the Author hopes and fears to find still time and material enough. Wide-awake heads may perhaps take the usual learned criticisms on the work for the regular comic appendices thereto. And, indeed, the gay, loose dust on the poetic butterfly-wings turn out often—when more closely examined—to be real plumage. Meiningen, December, 1802. J. P. F. Richter."
[Footnote 70]: The corpse is borne uncovered to burial; its attendants follow muffled up.
[Footnote 71]: Such, for instance in Hungary, is the designation of a deacon.
[Footnote 72]: Screaming and outscreamed are Richter's bold words.— Tr.
[Footnote 73]: Curiously enough, the German phrase is constructed here so as to mean, in strict grammar, "all tall travellers."—Tr.
[Footnote 74]: Compact, account.—Tr.
[Footnote 75]: Ten o'clock.
[Footnote 76]: Of Jupiter Tonans.
[Footnote 77]: The body in the Pantheon, the head in St. Luke's Church.
[Footnote 78]: One is reminded here of the manner in which Macduff receives Rosse's announcement that his wife and children were "all well."—Tr.