Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches.Rhodes, W. H. (William Henry)
Science
Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches.
Rhodes, W. H. (William Henry)
Science fiction
p. 150, "hieroglyphi" to "hieroglyphic" (13) (beautiful hieroglyphic
extant)
p. 153, "accidently" to "accidentally" (3) (I accidentally entered)
p. 161, "Okak-oni-tas" to "O-kak-oni-tas" (4) (with the O-kak-oni-tas)
p. 205, "amosphere" to "atmosphere" (18) (but the atmosphere)
p. 276, "liberty" to "Liberty" (the angel of Liberty)
Words used in this text for which spelling could not be verified, but
that have been retained because they were used multiple times or were
contained within quoted text:
p. 48, 288, "Goliah" (2) (possible alt. sp. of Goliath)
p. 181, "petira" (1) (flat lens, immense petira,)
p. 274, 287, "deringer" (2) (possible alt. sp. of derringer)
p. 286, "lappels" (1) (possible alt. sp. of lapels, in quoted material)
Word Variations occuring in this text which have been retained:
"bed-chamber" (1) and "bedchamber" (1)
"Cortes" (1) p.122 and "Cortez" (2) (another instance of "Cortes" also
occurs on p. 111, however the person described is other than the
"Cortez" who set out to conquer Mexico)
"enclose" (1) and "inclose(d) (ures)" (2)
"ever-living" (2) and "everliving" (1)
"every-day" (2) and "everyday" (1)
"Gra-so-po-itas" (2) and "Gra-sop-o-itas" (2)
"head-dress" (2) and "headdress" (1)
"melancholy" (3) and "melancholly" (1) (in a quoted "report")
"MERCHANTS'" (1) and "MERCHANT'S" (1) (in TOC and CHAPTER TITLE)
"O-kak-o-nitas" (2) and "O-kak-oni-tas" (3)
"right-about face" (1) and "right-about-faced" (1)
"sceptre" (4) and "scepter" (7)
"sea-shore" (1) and "seashore" (1)
"semi-circle" (2) and "semicircle" (1)
"wouldst" (1) and "would'st" (1)
Printer Corrections and Notes:
p. 11, Table of Contents: Chapter XI. "THE TELESCOPIC EYE" changed
from p. 175 to 174 and Chapter XII. "THE EMERALD EYE from p. 191 to 190.
p. 201, italicised "First." and "Secondly", to conform with remaining
recitations on succeeding page 202.
p. 227, "The thought crossed my mind, Can this be a spirit?" (is
correctly capitalized. Direct question within a sentence.
Wherever the printer used a row of asterisks as a separator, the number
of asterisks used has been standardized to 5.
Wherever the printer used blank space as a separator, a row of five
number signs (#) appears.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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