[32] The story was printed in the Columbian Centinel, Boston, December, 1789.
[33] See Diary of Sarah Connell Ayer (Portland, Me., 1910), 227.
[34] See Almon Danforth Hodges and His Neighbors (Boston, 1909), 217-218.
[35] “At sun two hours high,” says the Farmer’s Almanack, 1815, “the day is finished and away goes men and boys to the bowling alley. Haying, hoeing, plowing, sowing all must give way to sport and toddy. Now this is no way for a farmer. It will do for the city lads to sport and relax in this way, and so there are proper times and seasons for farmers to take pleasure of this sort, for I agree that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.”
[36] See Hodges and His Neighbors, 94.
[37] J. R. Lowell, Biglow Papers.
[38] The death of Goethe occurred on the twenty-second of March. The news must have taken several days in travel.
[39] Prussians were apt to console themselves for the pusillanimity of King Frederick William III by harking back to the really strong if ruthless monarchy of Frederick the Great, familiarly spoken of as Der Alte Fritz.
[40] Guy Stanton Ford, Stein and the Era of Reform in Prussia, 1807-1815 (Princeton, N. J., 1922), 185.
[41] Victor Cousin, Report on the State of Public Instruction in Prussia. Translated by Sarah Austin. London, 1834.