Transcriber's Notes

The following changes have been made to the text as printed:

  1. Footnotes have been placed close to their respective markers and renumbered sequentially within each chapter.
  2. Page [2]: robustnesss changed to robustness.
  3. Page [6]: Omit full stop after 1½d. a pound,.
  4. Page [6]: Beakfast changed to Breakfast.
  5. Page [6] (head of third column of table): full stop inserted after oz.
  6. Page [11]: walk through live changed to walk through life.
  7. Page [14]: full stop inserted after Wednesday meals.
  8. Page [15], Wednesday Meals—Tea: 3 lbs. Bread changed to 3 lb. Bread.
  9. Page [30]: they no not think changed to they do not think.
  10. Page [37]: comtemplation changed to contemplation.
  11. Page [73]: philanthrophy changed to philanthropy.
  12. Page [117], page [118] (twice): Israel’s changed to Israels’ (Jozef Israels, Dutch painter, 1824-1911).
  13. Page [118]: the tender springtime changed to spring-time (hyphenation was inconsistent within a single sentence).
  14. Page [176]: develope changed to develop.
  15. Page [219]: comma inserted in heading after Chemistry.

The following anomalies in the printed text are noted, but no change has been made:

  1. Inconsistent hyphenations, spellings and punctuation have been retained as printed, except as noted above. [These are discrete essays, written at different times by two hands and reprinted from a range of publications.]
  2. On Page [6], third column of the table: one of the values in the row labelled '3 oz. Dripping' is blank in the original work.