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Variations in spelling and hyphenation were retained as they appear in the original publication, except that obvious typographical errors have been corrected.

The following changes were made:

[p. 36]: ives changed to fives (three fives, a)

pp. 36-37: The section entitled [NAPOLEON’S ORACULUM; OR, BOOK OF FATE] was moved from just preceding the first section entitled [LIST OF UNLUCKY DAYS] to just preceding the section entitled [ORACULUM].

[p. 39]: cautions changed to cautious (extremely cautious of)