Transcriber’s Notes
Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed. This book was published in 1844, so some words may have been spelled differently than they are now.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained; occurrences of inconsistent hyphenation have not been changed.
Most of the [Errata] on the last page of the book have been corrected within the text; the change to page [163] was not made because it was ambiguous.
Page [132]: “Hopson’s choice” probably is a misprint for “Hobson’s choice”.
Page [153]: “smooth and melodies” was printed that way.
Page [168]: “De gustibus non disputandum” is a misquotation for “De gustibus non est disputandum”.