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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

Variations in spelling, hyphenation, and punctuation have been
retained from the original book except for the following changes:

Table of Contents: Added listings for FOOTNOTES and INDEX.

Page 32: Used oe for the oe ligature in "oeuvre batarde".

Page 189: Changed "their's" to "theirs".

Page 227: Added "Young" to the chapter title, "Two Young American
Playwrights," to match the Table of Contents and section title.

Page 259: Changed "Eightenth Century" to "Eighteenth Century".

Page 303: "Mrs. Siddone" might be a typo for "Mrs. Siddons". Retained.

Page 320: Capitalized "It" in "As You Like It" for consistency.

Page 331: (Index) Changed "Aeschylus" to "AEschylus" to match text.

Page 332: (Index) The reference for Bergstrom, Hjalmar, 90 was not found
anywhere in the original book, and page 90 was a blank page.

Page 332: (Index) Changed page ref. 122 to 222 for Bernhardt, Sarah.

Page 332: (Index) Changed "Caesar, Julius," to "Caesar, Julius," to
match text.

Page 338: (Index) Changed page ref. 176 to 76 for Michelet.

Page 339: (Index) Changed "Peladin, Josephin" to "Peladan, Josephin"
to match text.

Page 341: (Index) Changed "Scriptores Historiae Augustae" to
"Scriptores Historiae Augustae" to match text.

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