The spacing of dashes follows the original as accurately as possible.
Corrections and editorial comments are noted [thus][I-1]. Note identifiers match between the HTML and text editions.
I am most grateful to the folks at Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofing. This is very likely the most accurate edition of Studien und Plaudereien ever prepared. The PGDP folks uncovered more than forty errors in the 16th edition, about half of which were corrected for the 18th edition.
La Monte H.P. Yarroll
piggy@baqaqi.chi.il.us
June 2006
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Studien und Plaudereien
FIRST SERIES
BY
SIGMON M. STERN
Author of Studien und Plaudereien Second Series, Étude Progressive de la Langue Française, and Editor of Selected German Comedies