[Footnote 47: These antique Christmas festivities Richter describes with equal _gusto_ in another work (_Briefe und Zukünftige Lebenslemf_); where the Christ-child (falsely reported to the young ones to have been seen flying through the air, with gold wings); the Birch-bough fixed in a corner of the room, and by him made to grow; the fruit of gilt sweetmeats, apples, nuts, which (for good boys) it suddenly produces, &c., &c., are specified with the same fidelity as here.--Ed.] [Footnote 48: Which he purposed to make for his Island of St. Pierre in the Bienne Lake.] [Footnote 49: Borrowed from the "Imperial Mine-product-sale-Commission," in Vienna. In their very names these Vienna people show taste.] [Footnote 50: As, by the evidence at present before us, we can found on no other presumption, than that he must die in his thirty-second year; it would follow, that, in case he died two-and-thirty years after the death of the testatrix, no farthing could be claimed by him; since, according to our fiction, at the making of the testament he was not even one year old.] [Footnote 51: In St. Paul's Church at London, where the slightest whisper sounds over, across a space of 143 feet.] [Footnote 52: So much, according to Political Economists, a man yearly requires in Germany.] [Footnote 53: This singular tone of my address to a Prince can only be excused by the equally singular relation wherein the Biographer stands to the Flachsenfingen Sovereign, and which I would willingly unfold here were it not that, in my Book, which, under the title of _Dog-post-days_, I mean to give to the world at Easter-fair, 1795, I hoped to expound the matter to universal satisfaction.] [Footnote 54: His _Clerical Law_, p. 551.] [Footnote 55: Eichhorn's _Einleitung ins A. T_. (Introduction to the Old Testament), Vol. II.] [Footnote 56: Both have the same sound. _Füchslein_ means Foxling, Fox-whelp.--Ed.] [Footnote 57: Campe, a German philologist, who, along with several others of that class, has really proposed, as represented in the text, to substitute for all Greek or Latin derivatives corresponding German terms of the like import. _Geography_, which may be _Erdbeschreibung_ (Earth-description), was thenceforth to be nothing else; a _Geometer_ became an _Earth-measurer_, &c., &c. _School-undergovernor_, instead of _Subrector_, is by no means the happiest example of the system, and seems due rather to the Schadeck Lawyer than to Campe, whom our Author has elsewhere more than once eulogized for his project in similar style.--Ed.] [Footnote 58: _New Universal German Library_, a reviewing periodical, in those days conducted by Nicolai, a sworn enemy to what has since been called the New School.--Ed.] [Footnote 59: Superstition declares, that on the spot where the rainbow rises a golden key is left.] [Footnote 60: To the Spring, namely, which begins with snow-drops, and ends with roses and pinks.]