Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation in the original document have been preserved.

The following changes were made to repair apparently typographical errors:

p.41 "incantations to recal her spirit" recal changed to recall

p.67 "seducing Althelwold into a" Althelwold changed to Athelwold

p.195 "her, and did not like it.[">[" closing quotation mark in [] added

p.211 "discriminative in the extinct eulogies" extinct changed to extant

p.227 "than two hundred Scotticisms.[">[" closing quotation mark added

p.227 "compositions of Metastasio.[">[" closing quotation mark added

p.233 "anyrate no common phenomenon" anyrate changed to any rate

p.236 "BORN 1750. DIED 1728." 1728 changed to 1828