The illustrations (and captions in the text version) have been moved
so that they do not break up paragraphs and so that they are next to
the text they illustrate. Thus the page number of an illustration might
not match the page number in the List of Illustrations, and the order
of illustrations may not be the same in the List of Illustrations and
in the book.
An advertisement listing books available from the author has been
moved from the front of the book to the end, where it precedes full
advertisements for the books; a heading thus duplicated ("BOOKS BY
JAMES HUNEKER") has been removed.
The text contains many inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation,
which have been left unchanged. In particular, Liszt's works are
referred to inconsistently by their titles in various languages, and
names of keys are inconsistently hyphenated (e.g. "A-flat" and "A
flat").
Words in other languages were sometimes printed without their
diacritics, e.g. "Fraulein" for "Fraeulein", and "czardas" for "czardas".
On page 13, "Dobrjan" appears to have been printed with a diaeresis on
the "j"; this has been omitted, while the two other spellings used
("Dobrjan" and "Dobrjan") have been retained.
Other inconsistencies include:
Suiss and Swiss
Medaeival and mediaeval
Graner Messe and Graner-messe
Preludes and Preludes
Tschaikowski and Tschaikowsky
Belvedere and Belvedere
Berceuse and Berceuse
d'execution and d'execution
Debats and Debats
Fraeuleins and Frauleins
Koehler and Kohler
Meditations and Meditations
Muellerlieder and Mullerlieder
leitmotive and Leitmotive
Prueckner and Pruckner
Rakoczy and Rakoczy
Zuerich and Zurich
Mickelangelo and Michelangelo
Nadine Hellbig and Nadine Helbig
Munkacsy is spelled as Munkacsy, Munkaczy, Munkaczy, Munkacszy,
and Munkacsy
any one and anyone
benefit concerts and benefit-concerts
boat-hand and boathand
Czerny and Czerni
concert room and concert-room
d' Este and d'Este
Danziger Rosebault and Danziger-Rosebault
e 'l and e'l
Erl King and Erl-King
ever ready and ever-ready
every one and everyone
Fest-klaenge and Festklaenge
Feux-follets and Feux follets
for ever and forever
half dozen and half-dozen
iron gray and iron-gray
key-note and keynote
Maria-Pawlowna, Maria Pawlowna, and Maria Paulowna
Merian-Genast and Merian Genast
music loving and music-loving
octave playing and octave-playing
opera house and opera-house
piano concerto and piano-concerto
Piano-Forte, Piano Forte, and pianoforte
piano player and piano-player
piano playing and piano-playing
piano recital and piano-recital
piano teacher and piano-teacher
pianoforte playing and pianoforte-playing
programme music and programme-music
puzta and putzta
quasi-sonata and quasi sonata
Ramann and Ramagn
rewritten and re-written
Rive-King and Rive King
three quarters and three-quarters
well known and well-known
what ever and whatever
wood-wind and woodwind
writing table and writing-table
Inconsistent punctuation in the sentence beginning "Masterpieces,
besides those already" on p. 153 has been retained.
Some apparent errors have been retained:
p. 17 extra comma ("Paganini, had set")
p. 34 extra comma ("a man who, accomplished")
p. 58 mis-spelling ("Hoffgartnerei")
p. 83 extra comma ("Gregory XIV, had opened")
p. 111 mis-spelling ("Bestandig")
p. 123 extra comma ("the god, believing in his own")
p. 144 mis-spelling ("Gotterdaemmerung")
p. 204 mis-spelling ("infinitively")
p. 309 mis-spelling ("troup")
p. 341 full stop instead of comma ("much for fame. I bitterly")
Obvious errors in spelling and punctuation have been corrected as follows:
p. 27, comma changed to full stop (winds and murmurs.")
p. 74 "though" changed to "through" ("through his pupils continued")
p. 74 comma added to text ("whose fiery passions, indomitable energy")
p. 89, quotation mark added to text (outside of Italy":)
p. 98, "Madamoiselle" changed to "Mademoiselle" (Mademoiselle Cognetti)
p. 108, quotation mark removed from text ("same school.")
p. 149, "pentinent" changed to "penitent"
p. 152, "philsophical" changed to "philosophical"
p. 169, quotation mark removed from text ("a spirited march.")
p. 174, quotation mark removed from text ("wonders by black art.'")
p. 177, full stop changed to comma ("dispensed with,")
p. 199, "talent as a violonist" changed to "talent as a violinist"
p. 205, single quotation mark added to text ("'Freischuetz,'")
p. 209, "Bailot's" changed to "Baillot's"
p. 212, "Liszt's and Berlioz intimacy" changed to "Liszt's and
Berlioz's intimacy"
p. 214, "Listz was playing" changed to "Liszt was playing"
p. 219, "ooms:" changed to "rooms:"
p. 236, "genuis" changed to "genius"
p. 299, double quotation mark changed to single quotation mark
("grace, and beauty.'")
p. 299, "genuis" changed to "genius"
p. 302, double quotation mark changed to single quotation mark
("'as a concertante wit")
p. 351, full stop changed to comma ("he loved Germany,")
p. 356, comma added to text ("Adolf Blassmann,")
p. 358, full stop changed to comma ("Johannes Zschocher,")
p. 359, comma changed to full stop (""Second Tausig."")
p. 372, quotation mark added to text (""Friedheim is of medium height")
p. 422, "a la main gouche" changed to "a la main gauche"
p. 424, full stop changed to comma ("no other in the world,")
p. 441, "When" changed to "when" (when Breitkopf and Haertel finish)
p. 447, closing brackets added to text ("(Princess Nadine Schakovskoy)"
p. 447, "Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst" changed to
"Hohenlohe-Schillingsfuerst"
p. 447, semi-colon changed to full stop ("Museum (Budapest), 338.")
p. 451, full stop changed to semi-colon ("Piano arrangements, 86;")
p. 451, comma added to text ("to the Grave, 132;")
p. 452, comma added to text ("Sofie (pupil), 24, 42,")
p. 453, comma added to text ("Paderewski, 16, 17, 418, 419,")
p. 455, "Niebelungen" changed to "Nibelungen"
p. 455, comma added to text ("Rosenthal, Moriz (pupil)")
p. 457, "Veldi" changed to "Velde"
p. 457, comma added to text ("Tristan and Isolde (Wagner),")
(Unnumbered advertisement) quotation mark added to text (""Here we see
how winning")