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).