TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES
The original punctuation and spelling were retained, with the exception of a few printer's mistakes. The text contains also inconsistently spelled words.
The full list of changes to the text is as following:
- p. 10: Lizst changed to Liszt
- p. 24: Henri de Regnier changed to Henri de Régnier
- p. 40: immediable changed to irremediable
- p. 66: Maurice Barres changed to Maurice Barrès
- p. 77: idylic changed to idyllic
- p. 83:
(Consider changed to Consider
Explanation: the opening bracket (with no corresponding closing bracket) was removed. - p. 108: hippogrifs changed to hippogriffs
- p. 112: misanthrophy changed to misanthropy
- p. 116: Huysman's changed to Huysmans's
- p. 117, p. 276: Barbey d'Aurevilly changed to Barbey d'Aurévilly
- p. 127: promegranates changed to pomegranates
- p. 133: Musica changed to Musical
- p. 156: Cujol changed to Cajal
- p. 165: Facino Cano changed to Facino Cane
- p. 168: Frederic Chopin changed to Frédéric Chopin
- p. 244:
I'm a Social-Democrat now. changed to "I'm a Social-Democrat now.
Explanation: opening double quote added. - p. 246: sich changed to such
- p. 246:
exclaims Maeterlinck," yet changed to exclaims Maeterlinck, "yet
Explanation: the double quote was moved to the next sentence. - p. 327: De Beriot changed to De Bériot
Please note that the text contains inconsistently spelled words or phrases that were not changed. The following is a list of those words. The number in brackets denotes the number of occurences of each such word or phrase.
- Cafe (1), Café (1)
- Eugene Ysaye (1), Eugène Ysaye (1)
- Karl Heymann (1), Carl Heyman (1)
- Trocadero (1), Trocadéro (2)
- bird-like (1), birdlike (1)
- bric-à-brac (1), bric-a-brac (1)
- free-will (1), free will (1)
- rusé (1), ruse (1)
- shadow-land (1), shadow land (1)