[Note 3: _Flies ... in the amber_. Bartlett gives Martial.] "The bee enclosed and through the amber shown, Seems buried in the juice which was his own." Bacon, Donne, Herrick, Pope and many other authors speak of flies in amber.] [Note 4: _Fancy free_. See _Midsummer Night's Dream_, Act II, Sc. 2. "And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free." This has been called the most graceful among all the countless compliments received by Queen Elizabeth. The word "fancy" in the Shaksperian quotation means simply "love."] [Note 5: _A spade a spade_. The phrase really comes from Aristophanes, and is quoted by Plutarch, as Philip's description of the rudeness of the Macedonians. _Kudos_. Greek word for "pride", used as slang by school-boys in England.] [Note 6: _Trailing clouds of glory_. _Trailing with him clouds of glory._ This passage, from Wordsworth's _Ode on the Intimations of Immortality_ (1807), was a favorite one with Stevenson, and he quotes it several times in various essays.] [Note 7: _The Flying Dutchman_. Wagner's _Der Fliegende Holländer_ (1843), one of his earliest, shortest, and most beautiful operas. Many German performances are given in the afternoon, and many German theatres have pretty gardens attached, where, during the long intervals (_grosse Pause_) between the acts, one may refresh himself with food, drink, tobacco, and the open air. Germany and German art, however, did not have anything like the influence on Stevenson exerted by the French country, language, and literature.] [Note 8: _Theophrastus_. A Greek philosopher who died 287-B.C. His most influential work was his _Characters_, which, subsequently translated into many modern languages, produced a whole school of literature known as the "Character Books," of which the best are perhaps Sir Thomas Overbury's _Characters_ (1614), John Earle's _Microcosmographie_ (1628), and the _Caractères_ (1688) of the great French writer, La Bruyère.]