Transcriber's Notes:
Words and phrases that were typeset as italic in the printed version
of this book have been shown with an underscore (_) at the beginning
and end of the word or phrase.
Minor changes have been made to correct obvious typesetters' errors
and to regularize hyphenation; variant spellings have been retained.
In chapter XXIV, the sentence that was typeset as "By the time William
and Melia turned down Saint James his street," has been changed to
"By the time William and Melia turned down Saint James's street," to
make sense grammatically.
In several places, Josiah Munt refers to himself or others as
"prattical" in conversation. In chapter XXXVI, he is musing about
education for women as not being "prattical"; the Transcriber has
chosen to retain this spelling as fitting the author's style and intent.
In four instances in the book, the author refers to a "pickelet", and
in one place to a "pikelet". Because of the frequency of pickelet, the
Transcriber has chosen to retain the variant spelling.