Transcriber’s Note
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; unpaired quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unpaired.
Except for the cover and Frontispiece, all of the original images were shades of green. In other copies of the original book, those images were black/gray. The Transcriber believes the green was due to discoloration caused by ageing, so in this eBook, those images appear in black/gray.
Page 20: “Somerset Maugham” was misprinted as “Somerset Maughan”; corrected here.
Page 114: “s’embêter” was printed as “s’embèter”; corrected here.