Page 275. Incunabula means specimens of the first printed edition of a work; also the first impressions of the first edition, the firstlings of old editions.
Page 317. Wackelfiguren means figures made of Wacke, a greenish-gray mineral, soft and easily broken.
Page 322. The note is equivocal, since the phrase is used by fast women who keep some one in their pay.
Vol. II., page 122. Columbine is not equivalent to ballet-dancer; it is the old historical personage of the pantomime, confederate and lover of Harlequin, who protects her from false love.