TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES
The original punctuation and spelling were retained, with the exception of a few printer's mistakes. The text contains also inconsistently spelled words.
The full list of changes to the text is as following:
- [p. 10]: Lizst changed to Liszt
- [p. 24]: Henri de Regnier changed to Henri de Régnier
- [p. 40]: immediable changed to irremediable
- [p. 66]: Maurice Barres changed to Maurice Barrès
- [p. 77]: idylic changed to idyllic
- [p. 83]:
(Consider changed to Consider
Explanation: the opening bracket (with no corresponding closing bracket) was removed. - [p. 108]: hippogrifs changed to hippogriffs
- [p. 112]: misanthrophy changed to misanthropy
- [p. 116]: Huysman's changed to Huysmans's
- [p. 117], [p. 276]: Barbey d'Aurevilly changed to Barbey d'Aurévilly
- [p. 127]: promegranates changed to pomegranates
- [p. 133]: Musica changed to Musical
- [p. 156]: Cujol changed to Cajal
- [p. 165]: Facino Cano changed to Facino Cane
- [p. 168]: Frederic Chopin changed to Frédéric Chopin
- [p. 244]:
I'm a Social-Democrat now. changed to "I'm a Social-Democrat now.
Explanation: opening double quote added. - [p. 246]: sich changed to such
- [p. 246]:
exclaims Maeterlinck," yet changed to exclaims Maeterlinck, "yet
Explanation: the double quote was moved to the next sentence. - [p. 327]: De Beriot changed to De Bériot
Please note that the text contains inconsistently spelled words or phrases that were not changed. The following is a list of those words. The number in brackets denotes the number of occurences of each such word or phrase.
- Cafe (1), Café (1)
- Eugene Ysaye (1), Eugène Ysaye (1)
- Karl Heymann (1), Carl Heyman (1)
- Trocadero (1), Trocadéro (2)
- bird-like (1), birdlike (1)
- bric-à-brac (1), bric-a-brac (1)
- free-will (1), free will (1)
- rusé (1), ruse (1)
- shadow-land (1), shadow land (1)