TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
The image of the Library at the [front of the book], the image on [page 87] titled ‘THE ARTS’, and the image on [page 102] titled ‘WAR’, were printed sideways in the original book. These have been oriented horizontally in this etext. A larger version of these images can be seen by clicking on the image.
Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.
Six occurrances of ‘Michael Angelo’ have been left unchanged (not changed to Michaelangelo).
Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained: for example, fire-proof, fireproof; hand-glass, handglass; sea-shell, seashell; atheistical; vermiculated; Hindoo; Corean; falchion; lyrists; ideality; pedler; undistracted; blazonry.
[Pg 7]: ‘Library in Pittsburg’ replaced by ‘Library in Pittsburgh’.
[Pg 23]: ‘those of the achitecture’ replaced by ‘those of the architecture’.
[Pg 35]: ‘by door-and’ replaced by ‘by door- and’.
[Pg 40]: ‘rests a a border’ replaced by ‘rests a border’.
[Pg 50]: ‘is a rectagular’ replaced by ‘is a rectangular’.
[Pg 55]: ‘buildings commemmorated’ replaced by ‘buildings commemorated’.
[Pg 55]: ‘a small tympanun’ replaced by ‘a small tympanum’.
[Pg 63]: ‘will reflect thing’ replaced by ‘will reflect things’.
[Pg 66]: The anchor for Footnote [10] was missing and has been inserted after the heading Mr. Flanagan’s Clock.
[Pg 69]: ‘unobstrusively added’ replaced by ‘unobtrusively added’.
[Pg 82]: ‘require the freeest’ replaced by ‘require the freest’.
[Pg 112]: ‘of the genuises’ replaced by ‘of the geniuses’.