[Footnote 1: See Titan, Vol. I p. 38.--Tr.]
[Footnote 2: The Greek Polus (in Aulus Gellius, Book VII. Chap. V.),
who, having to enact Electra with the bones of Orestes, took instead
the ashes of his own son, who had just died, and uttered _real_
sorrow.--Tr.]
[Footnote 3: Julius did not become blind till his twelfth year, and had
therefore conceptions of the face.]
[Footnote 4: See the blind girl's song in Bulwer's "Last Days of
Pompeii."--Tr.]
[Footnote 5: Planets with their moons.]
[Footnote 6: Literally, He only thinks us, when we think Him.--Tr.]
[Footnote 7: Here ended Jean Paul's second volume.--Tr.]
[Footnote 8: Professor Hofmann as a throne-stormer, and his magazine,
wherein at the beginning of the Revolution he took every free-thinker
captive, are to be sure long since forgotten; but one may substitute
for him any the nearest and newest German ultra.]
[Footnote 9: Literally, "What time o' day it was."--Tr.]
[Footnote 10: I. e. a poltroon.--Tr.]
[Footnote 11: Hence in Athens it was allowed to ridicule the gods, but
not to deny them.]
[Footnote 12: Literally, was _handselled_ or _overhauled_ (as young
sailors on first crossing the line).--Tr.]
[Footnote 13: Literally, "knocked him into April."--Tr.]
[Footnote 14: _Satyr_ means a satyr, and _satyre_, satire.--Tr.]
[Footnote 15: _Emprosthotonos_ is the cramp which bends men forward.
_Opisthotonos_ bends them backward.]
[Footnote 16: "Sed magis amica veritas!"--Tr.]
[Footnote 17: See the weekly, called "The Jew," page 380, e. g.
according to the Book _Lebusch Atteret Sahaph_, a man with a beast's
head is a human first-birth, but not so an insect, an entire beast.]
[Footnote 18: Anatomical term for a passage connecting with the uterus.
Tr.]
[Footnote 19: That is, as an army is put on a movable footing or in
marching order for battle.--Tr.]
[Footnote 20: So the spinners call the decayed part of the
cotton-wool.]
[Footnote 21: The bellows' _treader_ or blower.--Tr.]
[Footnote 22: Bristles.--Tr.]
[Footnote 23: One of the seven stars in the tail of the Lion, named for
the wife of Ptolemy III., whose hair was stolen from the Temple of
Venus, where she had placed it in fulfilment of a vow.--Tr.]
[Footnote 24: From the connection, these books would seem to have been
certain antidotes to melancholy, or _Cheerful Companions_, well known
at that day.--Tr.]
[Footnote 25: Servants dressed in the costume of Hungarian
soldiers.--Tr.]
[Footnote 26: Pier-glasses.--Tr.]
[Footnote 27: Household plate.--Tr.]
[Footnote 28: Probably a ward or school of the city.--Tr.]
[Footnote 29: The hands of the Medicean Venus are new and restored.]
[Footnote 30: Chief-Physician.--Tr.]
[Footnote 31: For Vandyk's Sebastian is said to resemble the painter
himself.]
[Footnote 32: A furnace for destroying galleries of mines, invented by
Belidor, a French military mathematician, born in 1697.--Tr.]
[Footnote 33: "But it is myself I forget in pardoning you."]
[Footnote 34: According to the common opinion; for I am inclined to the
other, which calls them Ator, Sator, Peratoras. These names distinguish
the kings wholly from the shepherds, who were called Milati, Acheel,
Cyriacus, and Stephanus, and who also preceded them, all which I copy
here out of _Casaub. Exercit. ad Ann. Baron_., II. 10, because I am not
at all ashamed to know anything useless, provided a Casaubon is not,
and provided it is something learned too.]
[Footnote 35: The reference is all along to the years 1792-93.]
[Footnote 36: Who would take a hand at nine-pins on coming out of a
battle won or lost.--Tr.]
[Footnote 37: See Titan, Vol. II. p. 1, note.--Tr.]
[Footnote 38: A liquor made of sulphuric acid, alcohol, sorrel-juice,
and water, once much used for gun-shot wounds.--Tr.]
[Footnote 39: Voetii Select. Disputat. Theol., P. I. p. 918.]
[Footnote 40: Papin was a physicist and machinist, who invented a
machine for softening bones to make a digestible food.--Tr.]
[Footnote 41: Writers on natural history deny that serpents _do_ drink.
But this may allude to some legend.--Tr.]
[Footnote 42: He calls Death, and the state, a pavior, though in
different senses.]
[Footnote 43: The name given to a high rocky pyramid beside Mont Blanc,
containing a hole through which one sees the heavens. It is to me a
tender fancy to represent to myself beside the highest mountain, which
takes in as much of heaven as of earth, a smaller one, which opens into
a narrow prospect offering to our eye a blue telescope, out of which
our hope builds the arch of heaven.]
[Footnote 44: After the death of the Emperor, a wax image of him was
kept for seven days in the palace, where it received as his
representative ceremonious visits, and, among the rest, of course from
the physicians.--Tr.]
[Footnote 45: Meaning her body. See p. 78.--Tr.]
[Footnote 46: Or neck (of a violin, for instance).--Tr.]
[Footnote 47: _Vorrede_ being the German for Preface.--Tr.]
[Footnote 48: _To turn over the strong-box_ means _to count the
cash_.--Tr.]
[Footnote 49: Outlawry of debts after five years.--Tr.]
[Footnote 50: Hell-stone, or lunar caustic.--Tr.]
[Footnote 51: The district in which Voltaire's Ferney lay.--Tr.]
[Footnote 52: Probably some _vade-mecum_ of Jean Paul's time.--Tr.]
[Footnote 53: Contribution levied on subjects when the sovereign's
daughter is to be portioned.--Tr.]
[Footnote 54: Knave.--Tr.]
[Footnote 55: Ballet-dancer.--"The brisk locomotion of _Columbine_."
(Johnson's ghost in "Rejected Addresses.")--Tr.]
[Footnote 56: 1700-1763. A famous, extravagant German statesman
attached to Augustus III. of Saxony.--Tr.]
[Footnote 57: Heads of short, frizzled hair, modelled after the busts
or portraits of Titus.--Tr.]
[Footnote 58: A small Cologne coin, so named from the image of a little
fat man or monk (some thinking _fettmännchen_ a corruption for
_fettmönchchen_) stamped on it.--Tr.]
[Footnote 59, 60, 61: The one word _butterfly_ is expressed by three
different words here in German: _Schmetterling_, _Phaläne_, and
_Zweifalter_.--Tr.]
[Footnote 62: The crape hat.]
[Footnote 63: Because courtiers herein also resemble the first
Christians, who destroyed only such statues as had received adoration
in the place of _God_.]
[Footnote 64: Doctrine of kissing.--Tr.]
[Footnote 65: Carl Gottlob Cramer, who died in 1817, was a very
prolific, and in his day popular, romance-writer.]
[Footnote 66: In miners' language the _men of the quill_ are the
superintendents, clerks, &c., in the Mining-office; those of _leather_
are those who wear the hind aprons of that stuff for sliding down into
the mines; those of _fire_ are the men that smelt the metal.]
[Footnote 67: That is to say, in the years of _Lucinda_, the
anti-Herders, &c.]
[Footnote 68: Jean Paul reminds us in the Preface to "Quintus Fixlein"
that "Flying Dogs" is a name for _Vampyres_.--Tr.]
[Footnote 69: John David Michaelis (knighted by the King of Sweden)
planned, in 1756, a journey to the East, in the cause of biblical
and philological science, for which he prepared a series of
questions.--Tr.]
[Footnote 70: From the iron-forges and colliers' huts.]
[Footnote 71: See Apocrypha: Tobit viii. 8.]
[Footnote 72: It was when he spoke with his father in the arbor in
behalf of Clotilda's union with Flamin,--and when he proposed to
himself, before the event, to renounce even her friendship.]
[Footnote 73: Frascati was a summer residence of the Roman Emperors in
the Campagna, on the Tusculan Mount, eight miles from Rome.--Tr.]
[Footnote 74: Architectural term.--Tr.]
[Footnote 75: _Real-schule_: practical school, for the learning of
things. "Res, non verba, quæso," was Spurzheim's motto.--Tr.]
[Footnote 76: This Institute is of course out of Jean Paul's brain; the
others are historical. The one at Schnepfenthal (in Thüringen) was
founded by Salzman, who died in 1811.--Tr.]
[Footnote 77: Septleva (Sept-le-va) is an old French term applied to
the case in the game of faro where the player gains seven times the
number he laid down.--Tr.]
[Footnote 78: In German, Muck! like the snapping noise of the dog when
flies torment his sleep.--Tr.]
[Footnote 79: Most women are not gallows-_paters_ [confessors]
properly, gallows-maters and female barrack-preachers, until they are
full of the Devil, as Sterne had the most conceits when he was not
well.]
[Footnote 80: Sixth and fifth months of the French Republican
calendar.--Tr.]
[Footnote 81: February changed to August.--Tr.]
[Footnote 82: A grated Place in Paris, where they expose the dead found
during the night, that every one may find his relative.]
[Footnote 83: Great is the soul which, like him, with none but enemies
around him, renounces all power,--greater is the people, before which
one could venture to do it. Another people would have anticipated
Sulla's lice. [Alluding to a loathsome disease which beset him late in
life, called the _morbus pediculosus_.--Tr.]]
[Footnote 84: Victor took for his union ten persons, perhaps because
exactly that number is required to make a riot. Hommel, _Rhapsod.
observat_. CCXXV.]
[Footnote 85: The 4th of August, 1789, was the memorable night in which
all the represented upper estates formally renounced their old
privileges.--Tr.]
[Footnote 86: Literally _brain-borer_.--Tr.]
[Footnote 87: Job xxxvi. 21: "Take heed, regard not iniquity; for this
hast thou chosen rather than affliction."--Tr.]
[Footnote 88: For there is no great event from a little cause, but only
great events from a million little causes, of which one always assigns
the last as the mother of the great result. Is then the priming the
charge of the cannon?]
[Footnote 89: Thistle-knobs.--Tr.]
[Footnote 90: That is to say, no sculptor could make a second nose to
fit this statue,--for the first had been broken off. At last, after
four hundred years, a child found in a great fish the marble one which
belonged to it. Labat's Travels, Fifth Part.]
[Footnote 91: Old designation of a Russian or Polish Prince.--Tr.]
[Footnote 92: Dionysius the Little, a Roman abbot, invented the
Christian era.--Tr.]
[Footnote 93: Working-man's holiday.--Tr.]
[Footnote 94: _Mummies_,--one of the titles of the "Invisible Lodge,"
given in allusion to mixing up of serious and jocose scenes and ideas,
as the Egyptians introduced a skeleton at their merry--makings.--Tr.]
[Footnote 95: Financial speculators.--Tr.]
[Footnote 96: According to Scheuchzer, Alps are the best remedy for
constipation.]
[Footnote 97: _Horæ_ are the matins in the Catholic convents.--Tr.]
[Footnote 98: Papin, the inventor of the machine for dissolving bones
to make them digestible.--Tr.]
[Footnote 99: Galley in which the Doge of Venice wedded the
waves.--Tr.]
[Footnote 100: Richter's Idyl, "The Life and Death of the contented
Schoolmaster Wutz."--Tr.]
[Footnote 101: "The very sense of being would then be a continued
pleasure, such as we now feel it in some few and favored moments of our
youth."--Shelley's Notes to Queen Mab.]
[Footnote 102: Such was the name given to the park in the Abbey which
Lord Horion in his romantic taste had begun but not finished, because
he hit upon the Island of Union. I weave this description of it only
fragmentarily in with the incidents.]
[Footnote 103: Trio.--Tr.]
[Footnote 104: In the "Invisible Lodge."--Tr.]
[Footnote 105: Worm-shaped clots of foam.--Tr.]
[Footnote 106: Originally those who bore a ticket from the Emperor
recommending them to receive bread (_panis_) from a monastery.--Tr.]
[Footnote 107: "Proper mandates of the sacred imperial majesty."--Tr.]
[Footnote 108: _Befehlhaberisch_ is the German word.--Tr.]
[Footnote 109: Defined by Grimm, "a medical warm-bath prepared over
ants and ant-hills."--Tr.]
[Footnote 110: Readiness at turns, repartee, &c.--Tr.]
[Footnote 111: A prim, affected person.--Tr.]
[Footnote 112: I. e. light girls. Jean Paul uses _Dingen_ for the
dative in the first instance, and _Dingern_ in the second.--Tr.]
[Footnote 113: For not until he came back from Kussewitz did he learn
on the island, from his father, Clotilda's relationship.]
[Footnote 114: Complementary or completing, a musical term.--Tr.]
[Footnote 115: Four points in Lotto, next to the highest.--Tr.]
[Footnote 116: The Roman who wrote much on husbandry and natural
history in a gossiping style.--Tr.]
[Footnote 117: The spot in Mecca to which every good Mussulman turns in
prayer.--Tr.]
[Footnote 118: One took the silver thread rising and falling in arcs
for one continuous rill trickling downward; but the arcs of several
diagonally leaping fountains were set at such distances, that one
became a continuation of the other.]
[Footnote 119: A term for the ear-flaps.--Tr.]
[Footnote 120: In the moonlight, plants secrete oxygen gas or vital
air.]
[Footnote 121: _Third_ in German,--the musical division of time, not
however used in our common arithmetical tables.--Tr.]
[Footnote 122: Remember the Author's "Recollections of Life's fairest
Hours against the last."--Tr.]
[Footnote 123: "_Sea_-wonders" is the German expression.--Tr.]
[Footnote 124: The translator feels how much he has sacrificed of the
simplicity of the language in this song, in endeavoring to keep the
rhyme and the silvery rhythm.]
[Footnote 125: "_Nerve_-worm," literally.--Tr.]
[Footnote 126: Pascal.]
[Footnote 127:
"Man's littleness is grandeur in disguise
And discontent is immortality."