[6] Since this was written Sir J. Lubbock has been made a peer; and alas! notre cher Maître, Cherbuliez, has passed over to the great majority.
[7] L'Impérieuse Bonté, J. H. Rosny.
[8] Surely wild is a misprint for white? A mantle cannot be wild, nor is it an epithet to apply to a hawthorn tree.
[9] It is possible, though little to be hoped, that the complications in China (which any far-sighted statesman would have foreseen and provided for) may open the eyes of the British people to the terribly heavy bill which they will pay, eventually, for the luxury of the Chamberlain Cabinet.
[10] Since this was written, the letters of Ruskin and Rossetti have been published: a greater offence against dead men could not be committed.
[11] To know how possible this is, look at the women of fashion at the Cape in this springtime of 1900, with their admirable toilettes, their lovely false hair, their bird-adorned hats, their picnics and their dinners and their cheery titter: 'Let us go and see the wounded!' vide the testimony of Mr Treves, the eminent surgeon.
[12] Charles Conrad Abbott, M.D.
[13] The other evening, in a theatre in Messina, a young gentleman expressed aloud his disapprobation of the performance; a person near bade him hold his tongue; the young man answered the rudeness with a blow; the person immediately produced a pair of handcuffs and clapped them on; he was a detective in plain clothes! The Italian of whatever rank he be can never be sure that he is not shadowed. The apprehension poisons existence to the most innocent.
[14] At Palermo in the April of this year it has been decreed by municipal edict that, as it is contrary to hygiene for the petticoats of women to sweep up the dust of the streets in which the spittal of the sufferers from tuberculosis may have fallen and dried in the sun, all women who walk in Palermo are to shorten their skirts! Health, it is austerely added, is more important than fashion!
[15] Contadini drink the vinaccia, or vinella, made from the dregs of the wine-vats; but others drink (and often the contadino does so also) the chemical stuffs sold at drinking-houses and taverns with which the streets and roads are studded.