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55 [The Breughels were a famous family of Dutch painters of the

sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Pieter had a bent

towards diabolic scenes, whence he received the title "hell

Breughel" (Van der Helle); Jan, his younger brother, was a master

in the painting of landscapes, flowers, flies, etc. Apparently

the Count's learning did not extend to the father of these two

brothers, who was also a famous painter.]

56 A noted genre painter; some years before his death he began to

paint landscapes. He died recently in St. Petersburg.

57 [The Polish points the contrast by a rime: "the uproar was not

funereal, but dinnerial."]

58 [This translation of the Polish matecznik is of course purely

conventional: compare pp. 105-107.]

59 The breed of small, strong English dogs, called bulldogs

[literally, leeches], is used for hunting big game, particularly

bears.