"that Shakespeherian Rag": reference to "That Shakespearian Rag," a 1912 song by Gene Buck and Herman Ruby

Cannon Street Hotel: a hotel in the financial district of London

carbuncular: resembling a boil

carious: decayed

combinations: undergarments

damyata: to control

datta: to give

dayadvham: to sympathize

demobbed: released from the army

demotic: colloquial

Ganga: the Ganges River in India

Himavant: Sanskrit for "snowy." Probably refers in this case to the Himalayas.

Hofgarten: a park in Munich

Magnus Martyr: reference to a church in London, in honor of St. Magnus

Moorgate: a district in East London

Mylae: a battle in the First Punic War (between Carthage and Rome)

Philomel: a reference to Philomela, who was raped by King Tereus.

Starnbergersee: a lake outside Munich

the Metropole: a hotel in Brighton

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