New York, March 22, 1884.
Transcriber's Notes:
Obvious spelling and punctuation errors were repaired, but unusual spellings and grammatical uses were retained (vender, millionnaire, both indorse and endorse, academical, clock times using periods rather than colons, etc.). Both prophecy and prophesy, snowdrops and snow-drop, traveller and traveler, were used in this text.
Double quote marks within quote marks were standardized to single quote marks. Hyphenations were standardized.
Beginning P. 385, "Notes on Current Topics" through the end of the text, the original placed minor (shorter) thought breaks between each separate entry, including single paragraph entries. Transcriber has retained only the major thought breaks, and thought breaks indicating the beginning and end of multi-paragraph entries.
P. 368, "will be number of other deaths" is faithful to the original.
The following changes from the original were made:
- P. 315, "McGuillicuddy" to "McGillicuddy."
- P. 328, "irreconciliable foe" to "irreconcilable foe."
- P. 341, "maccaroni" to "macaroni."
- P. 343, "lucid internal" to "lucid interval."
- P. 391, "Engene" to "Eugene."
- P. 397, "Hawii" to "Hawaii."
- P. 397, first use of "Troisième" was originally "Troisieme."