Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been
corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within
the text and consultation of external sources.
Six occurrances of ‘Michael Angelo’ have been left unchanged (not
changed to Michaelangelo).
Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text,
and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained: for example,
fire-proof, fireproof; hand-glass, handglass; sea-shell, seashell;
atheistical; vermiculated; Hindoo; Corean; falchion; lyrists;
ideality; pedler; undistracted; blazonry.
Pg 7: ‘Library in Pittsburg’ replaced by ‘Library in Pittsburgh’.
Pg 23: ‘those of the achitecture’ replaced by ‘those of the
architecture’.
Pg 35: ‘by door-and’ replaced by ‘by door- and’.
Pg 40: ‘rests a a border’ replaced by ‘rests a border’.
Pg 50: ‘is a rectagular’ replaced by ‘is a rectangular’.
Pg 55: ‘buildings commemmorated’ replaced by ‘buildings commemorated’.
Pg 55: ‘a small tympanun’ replaced by ‘a small tympanum’.
Pg 63: ‘will reflect thing’ replaced by ‘will reflect things’.
Pg 66: The anchor for Footnote [10] was missing and has been inserted
after the heading =Mr. Flanagan’s Clock.=
Pg 69: ‘unobstrusively added’ replaced by ‘unobtrusively added’.
Pg 82: ‘require the freeest’ replaced by ‘require the freest’.
Pg 112: ‘of the genuises’ replaced by ‘of the geniuses’.