Transcriber’s Note:

Transcriber’s Note:

Words may have multiple spelling variations or inconsistent hyphenation in the text. These have been left unchanged, as were obsolete and alternative spellings.

A table of contents was added for convenience of readers. Footnotes were renumbered sequentially and were moved to the end of the chapter. Obvious printing errors, such as partially printed letters and punctuation, were corrected. Final stops missing at the end of sentences and abbreviations were added.

The following were changed:

• ‘excitng’ to ‘exciting’ ... It was an exciting time....
• ‘Batchelor’ to ‘Bachelor’ in caption to illustration.
• ‘frendliness’ to ‘friendliness’ in index
• ‘Smalt’ to ‘Small’ in advertisement descriptor
• ‘Esssays’ to ‘Essays’ in advertisement of Wilde’s works.