Words in other languages were sometimes printed without their diacritics, e.g. "Fraulein" for "Fräulein", and "czardas" for "czárdás". On page 13, "Dobrjan" appears to have been printed with a diaeresis on the "j"; this has been omitted, while the two other spellings used ("Dobrjàn" and "Dobrjan") have been retained.
Other inconsistencies include:
- Suiss and Swiss
- Medæival and mediæval
- Graner Messe and Graner-messe
- Préludes and Preludes
- Tschaikowski and Tschaikowsky
- Belvédère and Belvedere
- Berçeuse and Berceuse
- d'exécution and d'execution
- Débats and Debats
- Fräuleins and Frauleins
- Köhler and Kohler
- Méditations and Meditations
- Müllerlieder and Mullerlieder
- leitmotive and Leitmotive
- Prückner and Pruckner
- Rákóczy and Rakoczy
- Zürich and Zurich
- Mickelangelo and Michelangelo
- Nadine Hellbig and Nadine Helbig
- Munkácsy is spelled as Munkacsy, Munkaczy, Munkaçzy, Munkacszy, and Munkàcsy
- any one and anyone
- benefit concerts and benefit-concerts
- boat-hand and boathand
- Czerny and Czerni
- concert room and concert-room
- d' Este and d'Este
- Danziger Rosebault and Danziger-Rosebault
- e 'l and e'l
- Erl King and Erl-King
- ever ready and ever-ready
- every one and everyone
- Fest-klänge and Festklänge
- Feux-follets and Feux follets
- for ever and forever
- half dozen and half-dozen
- iron gray and iron-gray
- key-note and keynote
- Maria-Pawlowna, Maria Pawlowna, and Maria Paulowna
- Merian-Genast and Merian Genast
- music loving and music-loving
- octave playing and octave-playing
- opera house and opera-house
- piano concerto and piano-concerto
- Piano-Forte, Piano Forte, and pianoforte
- piano player and piano-player
- piano playing and piano-playing
- piano recital and piano-recital
- piano teacher and piano-teacher
- pianoforte playing and pianoforte-playing
- programme music and programme-music
- puzta and putzta
- quasi-sonata and quasi sonata
- Ramann and Ramagn
- rewritten and re-written
- Rivé-King and Rivé King
- three quarters and three-quarters
- well known and well-known
- what ever and whatever
- wood-wind and woodwind
- writing table and writing-table
Inconsistent punctuation in the sentence beginning "Masterpieces, besides those already" on p. 153 has been retained.
Some apparent errors have been retained:
- p. 17 extra comma ("Paganini, had set")
- p. 34 extra comma ("a man who, accomplished")
- p. 58 mis-spelling ("Hoffgartnerei")
- p. 83 extra comma ("Gregory XIV, had opened")
- p. 111 mis-spelling ("Bestandig")
- p. 123 extra comma ("the god, believing in his own")
- p. 144 mis-spelling ("Gotterdämmerung")
- p. 204 mis-spelling ("infinitively")
- p. 309 mis-spelling ("troup")
- p. 341 full stop instead of comma ("much for fame. I bitterly")
Obvious errors in spelling and punctuation have been corrected as follows:
- p. 27, comma changed to full stop (winds and murmurs.")
- p. 74 "though" changed to "through" ("through his pupils continued")
- p. 74 comma added to text ("whose fiery passions, indomitable energy")
- p. 89, quotation mark added to text (outside of Italy":)
- p. 98, "Madamoiselle" changed to "Mademoiselle" (Mademoiselle Cognetti)
- p. 108, quotation mark removed from text ("same school.")
- p. 149, "pentinent" changed to "penitent"
- p. 152, "philsophical" changed to "philosophical"
- p. 169, quotation mark removed from text ("a spirited march.")
- p. 174, quotation mark removed from text ("wonders by black art.'")
- p. 177, full stop changed to comma ("dispensed with,")
- p. 199, "talent as a violonist" changed to "talent as a violinist"
- p. 205, single quotation mark added to text ("'Freischütz,'")
- p. 209, "Bailot's" changed to "Baillot's"
- p. 212, "Liszt's and Berlioz intimacy" changed to "Liszt's and Berlioz's intimacy"
- p. 214, "Listz was playing" changed to "Liszt was playing"
- p. 219, "ooms:" changed to "rooms:"
- p. 236, "genuis" changed to "genius"
- p. 299, double quotation mark changed to single quotation mark ("grace, and beauty.'")
- p. 299, "genuis" changed to "genius"
- p. 302, double quotation mark changed to single quotation mark ("'as a concertante wit")
- p. 351, full stop changed to comma ("he loved Germany,")
- p. 356, comma added to text ("Adolf Blassmann,")
- p. 358, full stop changed to comma ("Johannes Zschocher,")
- p. 359, comma changed to full stop (""Second Tausig."")
- p. 372, quotation mark added to text (""Friedheim is of medium height")
- p. 422, "à la main gouche" changed to "à la main gauche"
- p. 424, full stop changed to comma ("no other in the world,")
- p. 441, "When" changed to "when" (when Breitkopf and Härtel finish)
- p. 447, closing brackets added to text ("(Princess Nadine Schakovskoy)"
- p. 447, "Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst" changed to "Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst"
- p. 447, semi-colon changed to full stop ("Museum (Budapest), 338.")
- p. 451, full stop changed to semi-colon ("Piano arrangements, 86;")
- p. 451, comma added to text ("to the Grave, 132;")
- p. 452, comma added to text ("Sofie (pupil), 24, 42,")
- p. 453, comma added to text ("Paderewski, 16, 17, 418, 419,")
- p. 455, "Niebelungen" changed to "Nibelungen"
- p. 455, comma added to text ("Rosenthal, Moriz (pupil)")
- p. 457, "Veldi" changed to "Velde"
- p. 457, comma added to text ("Tristan and Isolde (Wagner),")
- (Unnumbered advertisement) quotation mark added to text (""Here we see how winning")