Typographical problems have been changed and these are highlighted, as are changes made to standardise some hyphenation.

Transcriber’s Changes:

[Page 169]: Was ’territores’ (nullify the results of the war by converting the Southern States into conquered territories, in order that party supremacy)

[Page 169]: Was ’acquiesence’ (The hint was taken, the contest of 1868 was fought under a seeming acquiescence in the views of Stevens and Morton;)

[Page 194]: Was ’imperturable’ (“No, indeed! I have pledged my word to her never to touch a drop!” protested Andy, with imperturbable good nature.)

[Page 221]: Was ’anymore’ (“W.,” she said, “you don’t know any more about it than Horace Greeley did.”)

[Page 225]: Was ’contemptously’ (Mrs. W. spoke of them contemptuously as “nasty black worms.”)

[Page 245]: Was ’in’ (which is much better, and come to the reader in the shape of love-stories, odd adventures,)

[Page 248]: Was ’of’ (and if she were in the company of one whom she trusted intimately, she would laugh those popular virtues to scorn with her warm,)

[Page 254]: Was ’pleasant, sounding’ (Mell’s rather strained gayety found an agreeable echo in his pleasant-sounding laughter.)