New original cover art included with this eBook is granted to the
public domain.
Surrounding characters have been used to indicate _italics_
or +small caps+
Variant spellings of “column” have been retained
p. xiii removed period following “_H. L. Mencken_”
p. xiv added comma in “Peabody, Josephine”
p. xiv changed “Santayanna’s” to “Santayana’s”
p. 35 changed “I’lle” to “L’Ile”
p. 35 added apostrophe to “Island Nights’ Entertainments”
p. 40 changed “idefinite” to “indefinite”
p. 43 changed “Thackery” to “Thackeray”
p. 50 changed “pefectly” to “perfectly”
p. 60 added accent to “My Ántonia”
p. 74 hyphenated “Belle-Ile”
p. 82 added colon following “character”
p. 90 changed “Dicken’s” to “Dickens’s”
p. 90 corrected quotation marks in the block quote
p. 106 changed “or” to “of” in “I thought no more of”
p. 113 titles of books by Mr. Maurice have been left as-is.
p. 115 changed “Neuve-Sainte Genevieve” to “Neuve-Sainte-Genevieve”
in “in the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Genevieve”
p. 128 added apostrophe to “Apostles’ Creed”
p. 174 changed “function” to “functions” in “its old functions”
p. 179 added apostrophe to “St. Mark’s”
p. 189 added accent to “Lemaître”
p. 212 changed “guaranted” to “guaranteed”
p. 215 added “a” in “It is a humiliating admission”
p. 248 “_á_” changed to “_à_”