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-- Yodin T 12:51, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Should "thresh-/hold" be "thresh-hold", "threshhold", or "threshold"? There are a few instances in other issues of this magazine of "threshhold", but many more of "threshold", and none that I can find of "thresh-hold".
 * Should "where-/ever" be "wherever"?

Chapter 17
In chapter 17, the conversation is printed as: should it be: The original German is: This seems much closer to the second. It could easily have been from the printer's compositor having difficulty reading the manuscript version. -- Yodin T 11:44, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
 * “[…] consider well what you are about: you eat corporation-bread, and it may be taken from you; that’s my business.”
 * “O, ho! very well.”
 * “I have given you fair warning […]”
 * “[…] consider well what you are about: you eat corporation-bread, and it may be taken from you[.]”
 * “[T]hat’s my business.”
 * “O, ho! very well. I have given you fair warning […]”
 * „Wenn Er die Verantwortung auf sich nehmen will!” sagte sie. „Aber bedenke Er wohl, Er ist Stadtsoldat; Er kann fortgejagt werden.”
 * „Meine Sorge!”
 * „Gut” fagte die Alte, „schön, schlage Er immer die Warnung in den Wind; ich mag nicht in der Nähe bleiben, wenn das Donnerwetter losgeht.”

Chapter 22
Near the start of the chapter is an unclosed quote: Comparing to the original German, it looks like the full quote is: “At eleven o’clock, in the forest-house; but without mentioning any thing of what has passed.” -- Yodin T 12:41, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
 * “At eleven o’clock, in the forest-house; but without mentioning any thing of what has passed. The addressed person recollected then to have seen the speaker’s face among the attendants at the ball-room: and, after having rewarded him in proportion to the importance of the news he imparted, he continued his road in high glee.