1: Hochheimer is the name of a Rhine wine that has been
celebrated since the beginning of the ninth century, and is grown in
the neighbourhood of Hochheim, a town in the district of Wiesbaden.]

[Footnote 12: Johannisberger is also grown near Wiesbaden. The
celebrated vineyard is said to cover only 39-1/2 acres.]

[Footnote 13: Nuremberg is noted for its interesting old houses with
high narrow gables turned next the street: amongst the most famous are
those belonging to the families of Nassau, Tucher, Peller, Petersen
(formerly Toppler), and those of Albrecht Duerer and of Hans Sachs, the
cobbler-poet of the 16th century.]

[Footnote 14: Peter von Cornelius (1783-1867), founder of a great
German school of historical painting. Going to Rome in 1811, he painted
a set of seven scenes illustrative of Goethe's _Faust_, having
previously finished a set at Frankfort (on Main). Amongst his many
famous works are the Last Judgment in the Ludwig Church at Munich and
frescoes in the Glyptothek there.]

[Footnote 15: Gretchen's real words were "Bin weder Fraeulein weder
schoen." See the scene which follows the "Hexenkueche" scene in the first
part of _Faust_.]

[Footnote 16: A meadow or common on the outskirts of the town, which
served as a general place of recreation and amusement. Nearly every
German town has such; as the Theresa Meadow at Munich, the Canstatt
Meadow near Stuttgart, the Communal Meadow on the right bank of the
Main not far from Frankfort (see Goethe, _Wahrheit und Dichtung_, near
the beginning), &c.]

[Footnote 17: This word is generally used to designate an untitled
country nobleman, a member of an old-established noble "county" family.
In Prussia the name came to be applied to a political party. A most
interesting description of the old Prussian Junker is given in Wilibald
Alexis' (W. H. Haering's) charming novel _Die Hosen des Herrn v. Bredow_
(1846-48), in Sir Walter Scott's style.]

[Footnote 18: A string of pearls worn on the wedding-day was a
prerogative of a patrician bride.]

[Footnote 19: In the Middle Ages, in Nuremberg, and in most other
industrial towns also, the artisans and others who formed _guilds_
(each respective trade or calling having generally its guild) were
divided into three grades, masters, journeymen, and apprentices.
Admission from one of these grades into the one next above it was
subject to various more or less restrictive conditions. A man could
only become a "master" and