[1] The famous Wagner tenor.
[2] The Brussels publisher.
[3] The first number is dated Saturday, the 18th October, 1879, and begins with "rimes d'avant poste" by "Rodolphe" (=Verhaeren).
[4] Iwan Gilkin, Quinze années de littérature.
[5] Albert Giraud, Hors du Siècle.
[6] In the thirteenth century in Germany, "Fleming" was synonymous with "verray parfit, gentil knight." The Bavarian Sir Neidhart von Reuental, for instance, refers to himself as a "Fleming."
[7] Cf. Rodenbach's;
"Je vis comme si mon âme avait été
De la lune et de l'eau qu'on aurait mis sous verre"
with Maeterlinck's:
"On en a mis plusieurs sur d'anciens clairs de lune."