Simple typographical errors were corrected.

Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed, except as noted below.

Page 3: “probably be surprise at” was printed that way.

Page 10: “par un bras” was misquoted as “pas un bras”, and “Son voisin” was misquoted as “Se voisin”; both changed here.

Page 167: “Si Dieu plaÎt” was misprinted as “plÂit”; changed here.

Page 174: “Pierre LÔti’s” perhaps should be “Pierre Loti’s”.

Page 177: “lowering mass” was printed that way.