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 "The Official's Daughters" (cf. Introduction, p. ix.). But she exploits the idea only under a single and obvious aspect, viz., the comparison of the tender bloom of love with the precious firstling blade which brews the quintessential tea for the Chinese emperor's table; what the world calls love being, like what it calls tea, a coarse and flavourless after-crop. Ibsen has, it will be seen, given a number of ingenious developments to the analogy. I know Fru Collett's work only through the accounts of it given by Brandes and Jæger.

P. 135. Another Burns. In the original: "Dölen" ("The Dalesman"), that is A. O. Vinje, Ibsen's friend and literary comrade, editor of the journal so-called and hence known familiarly by its name. See the Introduction.

P. 160. Like Old Montanus. The hero of Holberg's comedy Erasmus Montanus, who returns from foreign travel to his native parish with the discovery that the world is not flat. Public indignation is aroused, and Montanus finds it expedient to announce that his eyes had deceived him, that "the world is flat, gentlemen."