Transcriber’s note:
Title page, ‘TWO’ changed to ‘THREE,’ “IN THREE VOLUMES.”
Page viii, ‘—’ inserted after ‘comedy,’ “Modern comedy—The French stage”
Page 4, ‘wont’ changed to ‘won’t,’ “I won’t humour you”
Instances of ‘N. B.’ on pages 16, 22, and 23 have been normalised to “N.B.”
Page 34, ‘guaging’ changed to ‘gauging,’ “determined on gauging Frank,”
Page 56, ‘scull’ changed to ‘skull,’ “both had iron skull-caps”
Page 78, ‘her’s’ changed to ‘hers,’ “caught his eye, closed her’s again”
Page 79, ‘years’ changed to ‘years’,’ “After two years’ struggle”
Page 81, ‘Madona’ changed to ‘Madonna,’ “sat for a Madonna”