Transcriber's Notes:
Page vi: Transcribed "Bronte" as "Brontë". As originally printed: "Bronte and her Sisters".
Transcribed "in" as "on". As originally printed: "Herr Kielhau, in Geology".
Pages vi & 142: Transcribed "Charles Rottman" as "Carl Rottmann".
Page vii: Transcribed "this" as "his". As originally printed: "Swift, Dean, and this Amours."
Page 13:Supplied "from" in the following phrase (shown here in brackets): "It caused Richard Steele to be expelled [from] the House of Commons".
Transcribed "colleague's" as "colleagues". As originally printed: "triumphed over his colleague's".
Page 16: Transcribed "Smollet" as "Smollett". As originally printed: "the best productions of Mendoza, Smollet, or Dickens" (presumably, Tobias Smollett).
Page 20: Transcribed "Uniersberg" as "Untersberg". As originally printed: "Charlemagne in the Uniersberg at Salzburg".
Pages 18-22: Alternate spellings of Leipzig/Leipzic left as printed in the original publication.