Transcriber’s Note

The following errors and inconsistencies have been maintained.

Misspelled words and typographical errors:

Page Error
ix Edmands for Edmunds
46 Newbury for Newbery
102 Missing period: “to a boy But”
158 Paragraph ends with , “her own generation,”
208 Sentence ends with a comma: “the originator of these verses,”
243 Thackerary for Thackeray

Inconsistent hyphenation:

folk-lore / folklore
school-fellows / schoolfellows
school-masters / schoolmasters
small-pox / smallpox
wood-cut / woodcut