[Footnote 25]: A Besom is a girl.
[Footnote 26]: The Senior.
[Footnote 27]: Schools in which all the real and practical branches of education necessary or advantageous to the business of life, are taught, in contradistinction to the ideal and more ornamental branches, as literature, metaphysics, the more critical prosecution of the classics, etc.
[Footnote 28]: These are not to be confounded with common Gewerb-schools, which are merely for mechanics: by keeping in mind the Higher Gewerb-school, the distinction is clear.
[Footnote 29]: Right of matriculation in the universities on the ground of the applicant having properly matured his studies in the Gymnasium.
[Footnote 30]: Here the learned author undoubtedly alludes to the universal passion for smoking. Germany is truly, in every sense a piping nation.
[Footnote 31]: This is translated with the same free defiance of rhyme and metre as distinguishes the original, and which may find plenty of parallels in our own old ballads of the people.
[Footnote 32]: States Confederation.
[Footnote 33]: Parliament of a State.
[Footnote 34]: A slanting cut in the left cheek.