[Footnote 1: The German word for the dash is _Gedanken-strich_:
_Thought-stroke_: (or _Pause for Reflection_).--(Tr.)]
[Footnote 2: He would not have known that, had he not got it from the
new Tacticians, Messrs. Hahn & Mueller, who teach the young officer the
Differential Calculus in order that it may not be hard for him in the
heat of battle to calculate the right base angle in wheeling and
deploying. Even so have I a hundred times wanted to write a book in
which to enable the poor-aiming billiard player merely by a few
solutions in mechanics and higher mathematics to carom with his eyes
shut.]
[Footnote 3: An allusion to an imagined mystic virtue in the number
4.--(Tr.)]
[Footnote 4: Lit. "Knee-piece."--(Tr.)]
[Footnote 5: Famous grammarian and purist.--(Tr.)]
[Footnote 6: _Stieck, oder Steckte_, is the German, quizzing the
grammatical purists of the day.]
[Footnote 7: Cambyses took Pelusium by storm, by interspersing among
his soldiers sacred animals, cats, etc., at which the Egyptian garrison
did not dare to shoot, and discharged prayers instead of arrows.]
[Footnote 8: The "one-leg" is myself. I have made the Preface, which
every one will have skipped and this note which must not be, for the
purpose of making known that I have only one leg, leaving out of
account the abridged one, and that in my neighborhood they call me by
no other name than the "one-leg" or "one-legged author," whereas my
proper name is Jean Paul. See the Baptismal Register and the Preface.]
[Footnote 9: By which the physicians mean; 1, sleeping and waking; 2,
eating of drinking; 3, motion; 4, breathing; 5, discharges; 6,
passions.]
[Footnote 10: _Rastriven_ means literally to rule a staff for
_music_.--(Tr.)]
[Footnote 11: _Gross-gezogen_ and _Kleingezogen_ is Jean Paul's
contrast.--(Tr.)]
[Footnote 12: Ohr-rose (ear-rose.)--(Tr.)]
[Footnote 13: In Haller's great physiology it is stated that
man according to Sanctorius sheds his old body every eleven
years--according to Bernouilli and Blumenbach every three
years--according to the Anatomist Keil every year.]
[Footnote 14: According to the Rabbins, the devil helped build the
temple, and the worm gnawed the stones smooth.]
[Footnote 15: The butterflies of Spring have (through the celibate)
lingered over from the former year; the Autumn ones are this year's
children.]
[Footnote 16: Affirmant idem corpus existens in duobis locis habere
posse utrobique, formas absolutas non dependentes--ita ut hic moveater
localiter, illic non, hic calidum sit, illic frigidum, etc. hic
moriatur, illic vivat, hic eliceret actus vitales tum sensitivos tum
intellectivos, illic non. V[oe]tii disp. throl. T. 1, p. 632. Bekanas
with philosophic acumen limits it so far as to say that such body--ergo
a woman--cannot be pious in one place and godless in another at the
same time; which is also clear to my mind.]
[Footnote 17: Wolfe's lect. memorab. Cent. XVI. p. 994 etc.]
[Footnote 18: Loco cit.]
[Footnote 19: Loco cit.]
[Footnote 20: Common to several denominations.--(Tr.)]
[Footnote 21: A Linnaean class with hermaphrodite flowers having five
stamens.--(Tr.)]
[Footnote 22: Of Saint Theresa.--(Tr.)]
[Footnote 23: Even children in the mother's womb. See Allgem. Deutsch.
Bilb., Bd. 67 S. 138.]
[Footnote 24: With which insects make the hole to lay their eggs
in.--(Tr.)]
[Footnote 25: "Aufgelueftet"--the word _luft_ (Scotch, _lift_) gives a
double sense here: _lifting_ to give _air_.--(Tr.)]
[Footnote 26: I mean a harpsichord disguised under the form of a
table.]
[Footnote 27: In Scheerau, as in some States even at this day, all
mourning was forbidden the subjects.]
[Footnote 28: _Fou_' is the Scotch for _tipsy_. See Burns. A German
proverb runs: "Voll-toll." These are Jean Paul's words, "Full and
foolish."--(Tr.)]
[Footnote 29: Pantheon?--(Tr.)]
[Footnote 30: This remark has in the la""t twenty years, if not in
France yet in Germany, become much less extensively applicable.]
[Footnote 31: "Gild refined gold." etc.--(Tr.)]
[Footnote 32: In a child's story-telling there is the same contempt of
finery, of side-glances and brevity, the same naivete, which often
seems to us caprice and yet is not, and the same forgetting of the
narrator in the narrative, that we find in the stories of the Bible,
the elder Greeks, etc.]
[Footnote 33: What the moderns write in the taste of the ancients is
little understood; and can it be that the ancients themselves are so
frequently understood?]
[Footnote 34: Do all Germans, then, feel the _Messiah_ who are at home
in the German language and Biblical history?]
[Footnote 35: Lit.: "Philanthropin." A natural system of education
instituted by Basidow.--(Tr.)]
[Footnote 36: A word coined by Harvey, signifying a corrupt condition
of the fluids of the body--hence ill-humor.--(Tr.)]
[Footnote 37: The Vehmgericht.--(Tr.)]
[Footnote 38: _Stunde_ means both _hour_ and _league_.--(Tr.)]
[Footnote 39: "Nature's soft nurse."--Shakespeare.--(Tr.)]
[Footnote 40: _Glove_, in German, is _Hand-shoe_.--(Tr.)]
[Footnote 41: Gustavus's courage in kissing is, on the whole, natural.
Our sex runs through three periods of boldness toward the other--the
first is that of childhood, when one is yet daring with the female sex
from want of feeling, etc.--the second is the era of enthusiasm, when
one poetizes, but does not dare--the third is the last, in which one
has experience enough to be frank and feeling enough to spare and
respect the sex. Gustavus's kiss fell in the first period.]
[Footnote 42: _Apotheke_--from the Greek--literally a
depository.--(Tr.)]
[Footnote 43: Frederick Jacobi in Duesseldorf. Whoever, in reading his
Woldemar, the best that has yet been written upon and against the
Encyclopedia; or his Allwill--in which he balances the storms of
feeling with the sunshine of principle; or his Spinoza and Hume--the
best upon philosophy, for and against--has admired the too great
condemnation (the effect of the oldest acquaintance with all systems)
or the profundity, or the fancy, or some other traits which elevate
certain _rarer_ men; such a one's ear will be sorely shocked by the
first yelp, amidst which Jacobi had to enter the temple of German fame;
but he has only to remember, that in Germany (not in other countries)
new energetic geniuses meet always a different reception at the
threshold of the temple (_e. g_. from barking Cerberuses) from what they
find in the temple itself, where the Priests are; and even a Klopstock,
a Goethe, a Herder did not fare otherwise. Nor, in fact, thou, poor
Hamann in Koenigsberg! How many Mordecais have in the _Universal German
Library_ and in other journals, helped build thy gallows and spin for
thy hangman's rope: Meanwhile thou hast happily come down from the
gallows only seemingly dead.]
[Footnote 44: Heaven grant that the reader may understand all this and
still remember in some measure the first sections, where he was
informed that the wife of the commercial agent Roeper had been the first
love of Captain Falkenberg and had brought the agent her first-born
child by the Captain as a marriage morning present.]
[Footnote 45: "Si ad illam quae cum virtute degatur, _ampulla aut
strigilis_ accedat, sumpturum sapientum eam vitam potius qua haec
adjecta sint, nec beatiorem tamen ob eam causam fore." Cic. de. fin.
bon. et mal. L. IV.]
[Footnote 46: The fourth finger.--(Tr.)]
[Footnote 47: _Zum Sterben schon_.--"Awfully beautiful."--(Tr.)]
[Footnote 48: _I. e_., Day-board.--(Tr.)]
[Footnote 49: A Russian title answering nearly to Baron.--(Tr.)]
[Footnote 50: _Leuterirt_--lit.: _referred back for explanation_--(a
law term)--(Tr.)]
[Footnote 51: _Bank_ means bench in German.--(Tr.)]
[Footnote 52: The picture of the lost little one, which he brought with
him on his neck from his abductress, and which looked so like himself.]
[Footnote 53: Elementary maxims of the law--a Scotch term.--(Tr.)]
[Footnote 54: General experts.--(Tr.)]
[Footnote 55: The whole career of his father, _Maria Wutz_, I have
appended to Vol. II. of this work. But although it is an episode, which
has no other connection with the main work than is given by the thread
and paste of the binder, still I trust the world will do me the favor
to read it _immediately_ after reading this note.]
[Footnote 56: I have preferred to render word for word what seems to
mean a _chronic sickness or soreness_.--(Tr.)]
[Footnote 57: This name was given to the English garden around
Marienhof, which the spouse of the dead Prince had laid out in a
romantic, sentimental spirit, and one that went beyond all rules of
art. Some one suggested to her the name and plan of the Silent Land.
But, now even this land is too noisy for her dying soul, and she lives
in-doors. Readers who were never there I shall oblige by a description
of the garden.]
[Footnote 58: I cannot help it, that my hero is so stupid as to hope to
be useful. I am not, but I show in the sequel that the medical
treatment of a cacochymic body-politic (_e. g_., better political,
educational, and other institutions, special edicts, etc.) is like the
taking of medicine by a patient of weak nerves, who works against the
symptoms and not against the essence of the malady, and undertakes now
to sweat off, now to vomit out, or to evacuate, or wash away his
sickness by bathing.]
[Footnote 59: The reader will remember that she had journeyed hither
from the Resident Lady von Bouse's merely to join in celebrating the
paternal birthday.]
[Footnote 60: These few parts I describe but briefly: The _Place of
Rest_ is a burnt-out village with a standing church, both of which had
to remain as they were, after the Princess had indemnified the
inhabitants for the loss of the place and all within a quarter of a
league's radius, at the greatest expense and with the help of Herr von
Ottomar, to whom it belongs and who is not yet arrived there. The
_Flower Islands_ are single, separate, turf-hillocks in a pond, each
decked with _one_ different flower. The _Realm of Shadows_ consists of
a manifold lattice-and-nest-work of shadow, thrown by great and small
foliage, by branches and trellises, bushes and trees in various colors
on a ground of pebbles, grass or water. She had arranged the deepest
and the brightest parts of shadow, some for the waning noon, and others
for the evening twilight. The _Dumb Cabinet_ was a miserable little
house with two opposite doors over each of which hung a veil and which
no hand whatever was permitted to unlock, except that of the Princess.
To this day no one knows what is therein, but the veils are destroyed.]
[Footnote 61: A bed invented by one Dr. Graham for lifting the invalid
during change of sheets.-(Tr.)]
[Footnote 62: See how Jean Paul has elaborated this same idea in Titan,
21st Cycle.--(Tr.)]
[Footnote 63: See this sentiment also worked out still more fully and
finely in the last paragraph of the 8th Jubilee of Titan.--(Tr.)]
[Footnote 64: "Erectos ad sidera tollere vultus."--(Tr.)]
[Footnote 65: "The human face divine."--(Tr.)]
[Footnote 66: A Prince Rupert's-drop.--(Tr.)]
[Footnote 67: A refusal.--(Tr.)]
[Footnote 68: _Aus der Luft_: the German phrase for "out of the whole
cloth."--(Tr.)]
[Footnote 69: For, notoriously, man's breast is much harder and more
inflexible, and like that which it sometimes encloses.--It is singular
that parents let their daughters _sing_, with all feeling, things which
they would not allow to be read to them.]
[Footnote 70: In the Roman Pantheon there stand only two divinities:
Mars and Venus.]
[Footnote 71: As in well known, the pebble or mountain crystal
concealed in the setting on a _doublette_, is called a _culasse_ and
the diamond blazing over it a _pavillon_.]
[Footnote 72: The Rose-maiden is the one who gains the garland for her
distinguished virtue.--(Tr.)]
[Footnote 73: The three cures which, as above stated, I use against my
lung disease, I have from three nations--following in freshly ploughed
furrows the English advise--strengthening by a dog's bedfellowship is
the advice of a Frenchman (de la Richebandiere)--breathing the air of
cow-barns is prescribed to Swedish consumptives.]
[Footnote 74: Or "_Liripoop_, a long tail or tippet of a hood, passing
round the neck, and hanging down before."--(Worcester's Dictionary.)]
[Footnote 75: Hollowed ice is, as is well known, applied to the head in
case of headache, vertigo or madness.]
[Footnote 76: Shakespeare's Prologues to the Henrys.--(Tr.)]
[Footnote 77: An odd forerunner of our modern local quiz, that
good Bostonians hope, when they die, to go to Paris (short for
Paradise)--(Tr.)]
[Footnote 78: Of course, German miles.--(Tr.)]
[Footnote 79: So much the finer is it, that they keep the sentiment of
love pure, thereby omnipotent; other feelings float therein, but
dissolved and opaque; with men the latter merely stand _beside_ it and
independent of it.]
[Footnote 80:
"O youth adown time's winding brook,
Toward life's vast ocean-grave I look."
The beginning runs originally:
"A wanderer sate by the rivulet's side,
And sadly the fleeting waters eyed."
--_Volk-songs_.]
[Footnote 81: "Das Abendroth im ernsten Sinne gluehn." (Faust.)--(Tr.)]
[Footnote 82: According to the older theologians (_e. g_., Gerhard,
Loc. Theol., T. VIII. p. 116, r.--) we rise without hair, stomach,
lacteal vessels, etc. According to Origen we rise without finger-nails
also, and what he himself had lost even in this life. According to
Connor, Med. Mystic, Art. 13, we come out of the grave with no more
flesh than we had at birth or conception.]
[Footnote 83: Zueckert in his Dietetics proposes a cork cuirass, which
keeps one erect above water, and which, as fast as the ability to float
on the top increases, may be cut off.]
[Footnote 84: In the "Liaisons dangereuses."]
[Footnote 85: For one might make a man crazy by insisting that he was
so. The friends of the younger Crebillon once agreed, on an evening of
social gaiety, not to laugh at one of his jokes, but only to maintain a
pitying silence, as if he had now lost all his wit and wits. And the
thing was even made credible to him. Other writers again are still more
vividly deluded by their friends into the opposite error of believing
that they have wit. [A curious illustration of this is given in a story
in Roscoe's "Italian Novelists."--Tr.]]
[Footnote 86: Alloying gold with copper is called the _red_; with
silver the _white_.]
[Footnote 87: That is, merely in the conventional; for there is a
certain better sort, by which not always that, but cultivated goodness
of heart is always accompanied.]
[Footnote 88: A settling of blood in some cavity of the body,
especially in the thorax.--(Tr.)]
[Footnote 89: As no readers understand sober earnest less than those
who cannot take a joke. I remark in a note for that class that the fact
stated above is really so, and that I (as an equally intemperate water
and coffee drinker) have never found any other means of bracing the
nerves against suspension of pulse and breath and other weaknesses,
which made all inner effort painful, of so much efficiency
as--hop-beer.]
[Footnote 90: An instrument for measuring the blue of the atmosphere.]
[Footnote 91: According to the ancients the rare springs gathered about
them all wild beasts, and these meetings, like those in masquerades,
gave occasion to still more extraordinary ones, and to the proverb,
"Always something new from Africa," or to miscarriages.]
[Footnote 92: His sermons, printed a year ago, will still be to the
taste of every one who shares mine.]
[Footnote 93: "Sweet hour, that wakes the wish and melt's the
heart."--Byron. (Tr.)]
[Footnote 94: A name meaning literally black clay.--(Tr.)]
[Footnote 95: "_Schlenterten_ (or is it written with a soft D?)"
(Original).]
[Footnote 96: The Zahuri in Spain see through the earth down to its
treasures, its lead, its metals, etc.]
[Footnote 97: Only not on _the same side_, as did the original.--(Tr.)]
The End.