Transcriber's Notes
Reading edition
The following changes have been made to the text as printed:
Footnotes have been placed close to their respective markers and renumbered sequentially within each chapter.
Page 2: robustnesss changed to robustness.
Page 6: Omit full stop after 1½d. a pound,.
Page 6: Beakfast changed to Breakfast.
Page 6 (head of third column of table): full stop inserted after oz.
Page 11: walk through live changed to walk through life.
Page 14: full stop inserted after Wednesday meals.
Page 15, Wednesday Meals—Tea: 3 lbs. Bread changed to 3 lb. Bread.
Page 30: they no not think changed to they do not think.
Page 37: comtemplation changed to contemplation.
Page 73: philanthrophy changed to philanthropy.
Page 117, page 118 (twice): Israel’s changed to Israels’ (Jozef Israels, Dutch painter, 1824-1911).
Page 118: the tender springtime changed to spring-time (hyphenation was inconsistent within a single sentence).
Page 176: develope changed to develop.
Page 219: comma inserted in heading after Chemistry.
The following anomalies in the printed text are noted, but no change has been made:
Inconsistent hyphenations, spellings and punctuation have been retained as printed, except as noted above. [These are discrete essays, written at different times by two hands and reprinted from a range of publications.]
On Page 6, third column of the table: one of the values in the row labelled '3 oz. Dripping' is blank in the original work.