niche : " trick," " prank

100, 5. Sonabe : <* Swabia."

7. WUper: a stream flowing into the Rhine at Lorch, on the right bank.

101,21. Belzébath: " Beelzebub/' << Sar tan," «* the DeviL"

102, 6. frater : obsolète in the meaning " barber."

25. UljBse : Ulysses, one of the heroes of the Trojan war. His wanderings form the subject-matter of the Odyssey.

104, 7. Titania : queen of the Fairies.

See Shakspere's "Midsommer Night's Dream."

105* Feiter! Germany'* Tire \**

107, 18. Kanco-Capac : father of the Incas of Pem and founder of the Inca monarchy.

21. Tas: Yao, said to hâve lived twentythree centuries before Christ.

IO89 22. Meillan: or Meilhan, a town in the southwest of France.

121, II. chute du Rhin: the largest waterfall in Europe.

123» 21. Schaffhouse: " Schaffhausen."

124, 21. six mille ans : It is considered probable that the Falls of the Rhine hâve been produced by attrition since the time of the Romans, for although the Rhine was known to them from its source to its mouth, no mention of the fall is made earlier than the tenth century.

1269 23. PAmbigu : The name of one of the théâtres in Paris, for the production especially of comic pièces. Hence the meaning hère contains the thought of a cheap, ridiculouSi and improbable stage décoration.