Printer's errors repaired, including:
- Page 128, "interestng" corrected to be "interesting" (really interesting detail)
- Page 129, "advertisments" corrected to be "advertisements" (advertisements had not)
- Page 217, "necesarily" corrected to be "necessarily" (did not necessarily)
- Page 219, "relasped" corrected to be "relapsed" (relapsed into silence)
- Page 227, "if" corrected to be "it" (take it for)
- Page 233, "ideals" corrected to be "ideas" (ideas seem original)
- Page 295, "premisses" corrected to be "premises" (own premises)
- Page 296, "what "what" corrected to be "what" ("what we've heard)
- Page 302, "consspiratoriably" corrected to be "conspiratoriably" (knitting conspiratoriably)
Other variable spellings within the text retained, including:
- The same word with and without apostrophe, for example: "Golder's Green" and "Golders Green"
- The same word with and without accent, for example: "régime" and "regime"
- The same word with and without hyphen, for example: "off-handedly" and "offhandedly"
- Inconsistent spelling, for example: "by and by" and "by and bye"