Transcriber's Notes:

Page [36]: Single closing quote mark after "He will accept you" sic

Page [79]: "next my boy" sic

Page [110]: Wormwood Scrubbs sic; platform amended to platforms

Page [185]: anatotomized amended to anatomized; full stop following "few friends" removed

Page [186]: hooping cough sic

Page [234]: umpromising amended to unpromising

Page [244]: "vary scrubby ground" amended to "very scrubby ground"

Page [338]: flabbergastered sic

Page [341]: facilè princeps amended to facile princeps

Page [360]: scarely amended to scarcely

Page [365]: closing parenthesis added after "particular shape"

Page [370]: invesgator amended to investigator

Page [388]: closing parenthesis added after "assumption of omniscience"

In the last essay, while there are paragraphs numbered 1 and 3, there is no paragraph numbered 2 in the original.

Hyphenation has generally been standardized. However, when hyphenated and unhyphenated versions of a word each occur an equal number of times, both versions have been retained (beershop/beer-shop; nowadays/now-a-days; reaction/re-action; reassumption/re-assumption).