Obvious typographical errors repaired. Punctuation, spelling, hyphenation, use of accented characters and stylistic presentation standardized when a predominant preference was found in this book. Capitalization and hyphenation of Chinese personal names has been standardized. Otherwise left as printed.
Missing page numbers are numbered blank pages in the original text.
Footnote numbers were re-indexed in this electronic text, internal references renumbered correspondingly.
For less common abbreviations and Roman numerals, title attributes have been provided for the convenience of screenreader users.
Footnote 46, ‘old’ changed to ‘[odd]’ (presenting a very odd appearance).
Footnote 109, ‘Marriages’ changed to ‘[Marriage]’ (Marriage between persons of the same surname is forbidden).
Footnote 267, ‘CVI’ changed to ‘[CVII.]’ (later story (No. CVII.),).
Footnote 427, ‘excepting’ changed to ‘[except]’ (except in the matter of light).
Footnote 447, ‘[of]’ added (first quarter of the present century).
Footnote 479, ‘denôuement’ changed to ‘[dénouement]’ (important to the dénouement of the story).