[1] The governess invariably took her meals with the family.
[2] Miss Bowley, though practically permanently resident in the
family, was still but a guest--a position which she never forgot,
though Dr. Caliban forbad a direct allusion to the fact.
[3] Such as are sold and patented by my friend Mr. Gapethorn, of
362, Fetter Lane.
[4] Petronius.
[5] The Ladies were Mrs. Caliban, Miss Rachel and Miss Alethëia
Caliban, Miss Bowley, Miss Goucher, and Lady Robinson.
[6] “It is enough for me that I am an Englishman.”
[7] This Phrase closes the XXXIVth of Dr. Caliban’s “Subjects for
Sinners.”
[8] I reproduce the title in its original form. I was only too
pleased to know that my work would appear above his signature; nor
do I see anything reprehensible in what is now a recognized custom
among journalists.
[9] Let the student note, by way of warning, and avoid this
officer’s use of ready-made phrases.
[10] Of what?
[11] The student will find a list of Historical Personages to
praise and blame carefully printed in two colours at the end of
Williams’ _Journalist’s History of England_.
[12] The Holts are still Liberal-Unionists.
[13] The pet name of the white pony. The name is taken from the
_Arabian Nights_.
[14] The use of the name of an estate in the place of the name of
its owner or owners is very common with the territorial class in
our countrysides. Thus, people will say, “I have been calling at
the Laurels,” or “I dined with the Monkey Tree”; meaning, “I have
been calling upon Mrs. So-and-So,” or, “I have been dining with Sir
Charles Gibbs.”
[15] A seaport in Britanny.
[16] A large military port and dockyard on the coast of Hampshire.
[17] The generic term among the wealthy for French menials of the
weaker sex.
[18] Always allow minion for extracts and quotations.
[19] The student must be careful in calculations involving the
decimal point to put it in its exact place, neither too much to the
right nor too much to the left.
[20] This may be taken as the _normal price_ paid for Literature;
the other prices must be compared with it as a standard.
[21] Practically one Pound.
[22] No prices beyond this, save on first-class papers--the
_Spectator_, _Daily Mail_, and one or two others.
[23] They are often inaccurate with regard to the past history of
the families mentioned, and very often wrong in the spelling of
the family name; but these details are furnished by the families
themselves, upon whom the responsibility must rest.
[24] I omit the ex-Jumbi of Koto-Koto, a rebellious upstart whom
the Imperial Government has very properly deposed.
[25] Messrs. Ibbotson, of Fetter-lane, and Charlton and Co., of St.
Anne’s, are the best-known Pulpers.
[26] Until Lord Balton (then Sir Charles Quarry) invented this part
of the machine, poems, apologies for Christianity, &c., in fact all
kinds of books, had to be torn laboriously into minute pieces by
hand. It is difficult for us to realise now-a-days what exertion
this involved. We live in an age of machinery!