Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.

Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.

Page 39: "Appeltons' Journal" was punctuated that way in the original book and on the masthead of the Journal itself.

Page 46: "generalties" was spelled that way in the original book and in some copies of "The Poestaster" itself.

Page 220: Greek transliteration in curly braces was added by Transcriber.

Page 309: Opening quotation mark before "unfailing good sense" was added by Transcriber.