In a very few cases, missing punctuation has been added, mainly full
stops. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.
On the whole, Vernon Lee's quirky spellings have been retained; they
include, but are not limited to, words like spirt, feretting, devine,
charnal, langour, irridescent, crenelated, crotchetty, tomatos, boddices,
putrifying, braggadoccio, Monna Lisa, trellise, Lionardo, Lorenzo dei
Medici.
The following changes were made to the text:
statutes became statues in the sentence:
What like are these statues?
The name Wohlgemuth was misspelled as Wohlgemueth and has been corrected;
similarly, Walpuergisnacht was changed to Walpurgisnacht.
A superfluous "or" was deleted from the phrase "more or or less" in the
passage:
(...)he should invent a more or less casuistic reason (...)
A quotation from Goethe's play "Torquato Tasso" was corrected in keeping
with the German original. Lee quotes it as follows, presumably from
memory:
'Nicht alles dienet uns auf gleicher Weise:
Wer viel gebrauchen will, gebrauche jedes
Nach seiner Art: so ist er wohl bedient.'