TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES
Reading edition
Pages x and 24 are blank in the original.
The following words appear with and without hyphens. They have been left as in the original.
ball-room ballroom
business-like businesslike
hearth-rug hearthrug
house-keeper housekeeper
house-keeping housekeeping
man-like manlike
now-a-days nowadays
over-head overhead
Variations in spelling have been left as in the original. Examples include the following:
center centre
learned learnt
spoiled spoilt
The following corrections have been made to the text:
Page xi: Introduction, 13[original has 5]
Page 48: slink away from a bantam[original has bantum] hen
Page 67: you[original has vou] go in for this sort
Page 129: sheer force of genius[original has genuis]
Page 161: some out-of-the-way[original has out-of-the way] corner
Page 220: exhausts itself in a declaration[original has delaration] of revolt
Page 269: ignorant of contemporary[original is split across lines after con but hyphen is missing] fashions
Page 303: following the [original has the the] same extravagance
Page 332: torture it until it[original has is] has about as much life
Ellipses match the original.