Given the nature of the text, there were copious errors in the typesetting. Errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected, and are noted here. Inconsistencies in the punctuation in the Appendices have been resolved with no further notice below.
(The references below are to the page and line in the original. Since the original text was arranged in two columns, ‘L’ and ‘R’ denote the side of the page.)
| 2R.13 | Gu[i]lliver’s Travels | Removed. |
| 3L.8 | Spenser, Faëry Queen, IV. viii. 24 (1[8/5]56 ). | Replaced. |
| 3R.36 | Catskill Moun[t]ains | Inserted. |
| 9L.14 | he blesses the name Slum.[”] | Added. |
| 20R.38 | Paladore chall[a/e]nged the duke | Replaced. |
| 27L.21 | pour déguiser leurs pensées.[”] | Added. |
| 30R.14 | said the colo[nel] to his wife, | Restored. |
| 31R.37 | live in chas[t]ity all their life | Inserted. |
| 32R.39 | Louis II. of France, le Bégué (846, 877-879)[,/.] | Replaced. |
| 40L.6 | “The Work of Ambrosius.”[’] | Removed. |
| 43L.17 | Gulliver’s Travels “Laputa,” [(]1726). | Added. |
| 43R.33 | aged 36.[)] | Added. |
| 51R.38 | One’s sorrow, two’s mirth[,] | Added. |
| 65R.38 | “The Reeve’s Tale,” [(]1388) | Added. |
| 66L.14 | Francis Joseph Haydn [(]1732-1809). | Added. |
| 72L.19 | to read the secret[’]s | Removed. |
| 76R.2 | goes on a vis[i]t | Inserted. |
| 79R.13 | Tasna[r] | Added. |
| 91R.28 | the death of his father[”] | Removed. |
| 104L.15 | “The Thirty Years’ War[”]. | Added. |
| 123L.20 | Fer[n/m]at’s theorem | Replaced. |
| 133R.26 | [{]“The White Cat,” 1682). | Added. |
| 141L.11 | Polycraticos de Curialium Nugis, v. 8 (twelft[y/h] century). | Replaced. |
| 143R.14 | an old bach[e]lor | Inserted. |
| 154R.14 | French estoc[)] | Added. |
| 157L.12 | [(]time, George III.). | Added. |
| 157L.38 | Drayton, Polyolbion, i. [(]1612). | Added. |
| 170R.6 | The Messiah, iii. [(]1748). | Added. |
| 173R.35 | Southey, Madoc [(]1805). | Added. |
| 180R.2 | because he esca[s]ped from Giebichenstein | Removed. |
| 181R.1 | [[/(]Val.yan.tee´no] | Replaced. |
| 184R.17 | the lov[e]liest pair of sparkling eyes | Inserted. |
| 186L.3 | on September 8, 1705[)] | Removed. |
| 190L.39 | “Elysium” [(]Æneid, vi.) | Added. |
| 197R.12 | [{]“The White Cat,” 1682). | Added. |
| 197R.21 | [(]1769>, 1804-1815, died, 1821) | Added. |
| 199R.1 | of this story[/,] which he calls | Replaced. |
| 204L.39 | R[h]ythmical, or Elder Edda | Inserted. |
| 215R.42 | cats are very assid[i/u]ous | Replaced. |
| 216R.17 | Disquisitiones Magicæ, [(]592) | Added. |
| 239R.29 | One of King Arthur’s knight[’]s | Removed. |
| 246L.18 | Lord Will[ai/ia]m seized the child’s hand | Transposed. |
| 240L.9 | [(]“The Wife of Bath’s Tale,” 1388) | Added. |
| 252R.37 | (“But it does move, though”), [(]1564-1642). | Added. |
| 258R.9 | (ninth century.[)] | Added. |
| 261R.35 | be toil no more.[’]” | Removed. |
| 262L.2 | the thirty-fourth jub[l]ilee | Removed. |
| 272R.17 | (begin[n]ing of thirteenth century) | Inserted. |
| 277L.16 | brill[i]ant and beautiful woman, | Inserted. |
| 277L.23 | could Zenobia have for[e]seen | Inserted. |
| 280L.21 | Zobeid[e/ê] caused his favorite | Replaced. |
| 281R.25 | (“Corcud and His Four Sons,” 1723[).] | Added. |
| 295R.14 | of the Amer[i]can Union | Inserted. |
| 305R.36 | Popular Antiquities of Great Brit[ia/ai]n | Transposed. |
| 313L.25 | proved to be “Junius” by[ by] O. W. Serres | Removed. |
| 321R.47 | Reveries [a/o]f a Bachelor | Replaced. |
| 326R.41 | born in Derbyshire, 1689[, /–]1761 | Replaced. |
| 331R.38 | Commentaries on the[ the] Constitution of the United States | Removed. |
| 347L.9 | Brutus, or the Fall of Tarquin, 1820[.], | Removed. |
| 350L.57 | (a plagia[r]ism of The Country Girle) | Inserted. |
| 357L.10 | Foscari (I[l] due) | Added. |
| 369L.31 | Mucedorus (no [(]date) | Removed. |
| 378L.8 | (1642-1689[)] | Added. |
| 383L.9 | [1805-1868. Coyne./Coyne (1805-1868.)] | Replaced. |
The phrase ‘Duchess of...’, etc., is not consistently capitalized, particularly in the Appendices. All are left as printed.
The following words had inconsistent hyphenation. Words which are hyphenated on a line break retained the hyphen (or not) depending on other instances.