FOOTNOTES:

[A] Numbers 264, 268, 274, and 279.

[B] Reported in the Manchester Guardian of March 28, 1855.

[C] Reported in the Manchester Guardian of March 28, 1855.

Transcriber’s note

New original cover art included with this eBook is granted to the public domain.

Minor punctuation errors have been changed without notice. Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized.

In the original on page [15], the footnote is referenced in two places in the text. In this version a duplicate footnote was added.

Spelling has been retained as originally published except for the corrections below.

Page [1]:“a man in Paris have an”“a man in Paris has an”
Page [3]:“and disagreable company”“and disagreeable company”
Page [9]:“Madame Rosa's bourdoir”“Madame Rosa's boudoir”
Page [9]:“lived where Michael Angelo”“lived where Michelangelo”
Page [13]:“yielded the pas”“yielded the past”
Page [15]:“members of the Asociation”“members of the Association”
Page [22]:“mends it himself”“tends it himself”