Transcriber's Notes
Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.
Page [39]: "Appeltons' Journal" was punctuated that way in the original book and on the masthead of the Journal itself.
Page [46]: "generalties" was spelled that way in the original book and in some copies of "The Poestaster" itself.
Page [220]: Greek transliteration in curly braces was added by Transcriber.
Page [309]: Opening quotation mark before "unfailing good sense" was added by Transcriber.