Transcriber’s Note

The following errors and inconsistencies have been maintained.

Misspelled words and typographical errors:

PageError
[ix]Edmands for Edmunds
[46]Newbury for Newbery
[102]Missing period: “to a boy But”
[158]Paragraph ends with , “her own generation,”
[208]Sentence ends with a comma: “the originator of these verses,”
[243]Thackerary for Thackeray