Obvious typographical and printer errors have been corrected without comment.
In addition to obvious errors, the following changes have been made:
Page 26: "virture" changed to "virtue" in the phrase, "... had the virtue of being terse...."
Page 53: The word "you" was added to the phrase, "How do you propose...."
Page 178: "disppeared" changed to "disappeared" in the phrase, "... they had disappeared...."
Page 209: "filliped" changed to "flipped" in the phrase, "... contemptuously flipped his half-smoked cigar...."
Page 320: "tremenduous" changed to "tremendous" in the phrase, "... a tremendous uproar...."
Other than the above, no effort has been made to standardize internal inconsistencies in spelling, capitalization, punctuation, grammar, etc. The author's usage is preserved as found in the original publication.