Transcriber’s Note (continued)
Errors in punctuation and simple typos have been corrected without note. Variations in spelling, hyphenation, accents, etc., have been left as they appear in the original publication unless as stated in the following:
Page 6 – “solecism ending” changed to “solecism of ending” (solecism of ending a sentence prepositionally)
Page 56 – “Bastile” changed to “Bastille” (fall of the Bastille)
Page 90 – “painting” changed to “paintings” (paintings of anæmic bunches of flowers)
Page 144 – “Brentôme” changed to “Brantôme” (Brantôme, Rabelais, and Casanova)
Footnotes are placed immediately below the paragraph in which the reference to that footnote appears.
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