TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES.
Inconsistent hyphenation preserved as in the original.
The List of Illustrations was changed to match the captions of the illustrations, and the page numbers were adjusted to show their position after the illustrations were moved so not to split paragraphs.
On page 51, the comma after "indirectly does me a right" was replaced with a period.
On page 52, in the footnote "Lafacadio" was changed to "Lafcadio".
On page 71, "acquiline" was changed to "aquiline".
On page 82, "Marysville" was changed to "Maysville".
On page 83, "indigant" was changed to "indignant".
On page 118, the period inside the quote was changed to a comma.
On page 120, "important person that" was changed to "important person than".
On page 138, "Houkousai" was changed to "Hokusai".
On page 145, "pyschological" was changed to "psychological".
On page 163, "Hokousai" was changed to "Hokusai".
On page 177, "adoped" was changed to "adopted".
On page 202, "Lillian" was changed to "Lilliah".
On page 203, the added spaces were in the original, to indicate missing words. Those missing spaces have been retained here.
On page 210, "Koizume" was changed to "Koizumi".
On page 245, "kizeru" was changed to "kiseru".
On page 260, "bad" was changed to "had".
On page 264, "spead" was changed to "spread".
On page 275, "library,." was changed to "library,".
On page 282, "Ultitimately" was changed to "Ultimately".
On page 291, "condi tions" was changed to "conditions".
On page 315, "out" was changed to "our".
On page 334, "portaits" was changed to "portraits".
On page 336, a closing quotation mark was places after "Finis: sweetness and sympathy."
On page 353, "Théophile" was changed to "Theophile".
On page 355, in the Index, the "Sackville" entry was moved to the "S" section and was identified with small caps as the first "S" word, instead of "St. Ronite", and "Shirabzoshi" was replaced with "Shirabyoshi".