[3] This article was published in the Grenzboten without delay. Articles in the same sense appeared later in No. 33 of the Deutsches Tageblatt (Feb. 2) and a few days previously in the Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung.
[4] “Euphorian.—Leave me not in the gloomy realm, mother, not alone!
“Chorus.—Not alone, wherever thou biddest.... Ah, if from the day thou hastenest, still each heart will cling to thee!”
—Faust, Part II. These lines are from the lament on the death of Byron which Goethe incorporated in his poem.—Translator.
[5] The author is responsible for this use of the words “snob” and “swell.”—Translator.
[6] The editor of a collection of Bismarckian documents of the Frankfurt period.
[7] Probably at Schönhausen. See Hesekiel’s Buch vom Grafen Bismarck, p. 19.
[8] Formerly a lieutenant in the Prussian army, then an officer of the revolutionary forces in Baden, and finally a democratic writer.
[9] These, doubtless, included those contained in the fourth volume of Preussen im Bundestage, which had not been published at that time.
[10] The Saxon General and Minister of War.