The original punctuation and spelling were retained, with the exception of a few printer's mistakes. The text contains also inconsistently spelled words.

The full list of changes to the text is as following:

• p. 10: Lizst changed to Liszt
• p. 24: Henri de Regnier changed to Henri de RÉgnier
• p. 40: immediable changed to irremediable
• p. 66: Maurice Barres changed to Maurice BarrÈs
• p. 77: idylic changed to idyllic
• p. 83: (Consider changed to Consider
  Explanation: the opening bracket (with no corresponding closing bracket) was removed.
• p. 108: hippogrifs changed to hippogriffs
• p. 112: misanthrophy changed to misanthropy
• p. 116: Huysman's changed to Huysmans's
• p. 117, p. 276: Barbey d'Aurevilly changed to Barbey d'AurÉvilly
• p. 127: promegranates changed to pomegranates
• p. 133: Musica changed to Musical
• p. 156: Cujol changed to Cajal
• p. 165: Facino Cano changed to Facino Cane
• p. 168: Frederic Chopin changed to FrÉdÉric Chopin
• p. 244: I'm a Social-Democrat now. changed to "I'm a Social-Democrat now.
  Explanation: opening double quote added.
• p. 246: sich changed to such
• p. 246: exclaims Maeterlinck," yet changed to exclaims Maeterlinck, "yet
  Explanation: the double quote was moved to the next sentence.
• p. 327: De Beriot changed to De BÉriot

Please note that the text contains inconsistently spelled words or phrases that were not changed. The following is a list of those words. The number in brackets denotes the number of occurences of each such word or phrase.

• Cafe (1), CafÉ (1)
• Eugene Ysaye (1), EugÈne Ysaye (1)
• Karl Heymann (1), Carl Heyman (1)
• Trocadero (1), TrocadÉro (2)
• bird-like (1), birdlike (1)
• bric-À-brac (1), bric-a-brac (1)
• free-will (1), free will (1)
• rusÉ (1), ruse (1)
• shadow-land (1), shadow land (1)