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Pages x and 24 are blank in the original.

The following words appear with and without hyphens. They have been left as in the original.

ball-room ballroom
business-like businesslike
hearth-rug hearthrug
house-keeper housekeeper
house-keeping housekeeping
man-like manlike
now-a-days nowadays
over-head overhead

Variations in spelling have been left as in the original. Examples include the following:

center centre
learned learnt
spoiled spoilt

The following corrections have been made to the text:

Page xi: Introduction, 13[original has 5]

Page 48: slink away from a bantam[original has bantum] hen

Page 67: you[original has vou] go in for this sort

Page 129: sheer force of genius[original has genuis]

Page 161: some out-of-the-way[original has out-of-the way] corner

Page 220: exhausts itself in a declaration[original has delaration] of revolt

Page 269: ignorant of contemporary[original is split across lines after con but hyphen is missing] fashions

Page 303: following the [original has the the] same extravagance

Page 332: torture it until it[original has is] has about as much life

Ellipses match the original.






                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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