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FOOTNOTES:

[363] _Memoir_, p 162

[364] _Meinal edition of _Northanger Abbey_

[366] _Memoir_, p 165

[367] _Brabourne_, vol ii p 333, &c

[368] _Brabourne_, vol ii p 338, &c

[369] _Memoir_, p 87

[370] _Sailor Brothers_, chap xviii

[371] His two sisters and himself

APPENDIX

_The Text of Jane Austen's Novels_

In the course of frequent reprinting, various errors have crept into the text of the novels, which see perpetuated We thereforeour reasons e prefer any particular reading

In arriving at the correct text of Jane Austen, couide It is of no use to assume, as some editors have done, that the latest edition which appeared in the author's lifetiht naturally have had the benefit of her corrections, is any more correct than the earliest Jane Austen was no skilled proofreader, and it is a melancholy fact that the second edition of _Mansfield Park_, which she returned to Mr Murray 'as ready for press' as she could make it, containsone or two that do not appear in the first edition But as the type was evidently re-set, this ain, though in one of her letters she points out a misprint in the first edition of _Pride and Prejudice_, the passage is not corrected in either the second or third edition, both of which subsequently appeared in her lifeti the various discrepancies, it is necessary to say a feords about the chief editions of note During the author's lifetime three editions appeared of _Pride and Prejudice_, two of _Sense and Sensibility_ and of _Mansfield Park_, and one of _Eer Abbey_ and _Persuasion_ were published soon after her death No other edition of the novels seehts of all the novels in 1832, and included them in his 'Standard Novels' series

In process of time, Bentley's edition adopted various emendations in the text It held the field to all intents and purposes for sixty years (apart from cheap reprints in the 'Parlour Series,' 'Railway Library,'

&c), and its text has largely been followed in later editions, especially by Messrs Macmillan in their 'Pocket Classics' series Other recent editions, containing athe earliest editions--are those edited for Messrs Dent by Mr Brimley Johnson, the earliest of which appeared in 1892, and the most recent of which has appeared in 'Everyman's Library'; the Hampshi+re Edition (_published_ by Mr Bri considerably from the editions which he has _edited_); and the Winchester Edition, published by Mr Grant Richards

Finally, with regard to textual criticis of Jane Austen's novels,' by the late Dr Verrall, contributed to the _Cae Observer_, about 1892; and two others, also by Dr

Verrall, 'On soes in Jane Austen's _Mansfield Park_,' in the _Cae Review_, for November 30 and December 7, 1893; and certain emendations pointed out in a review of a new edition of _Pride and Prejudice_ in the _Saturday Review_ of November 12, 1910

'SENSE AND SENSIBILITY'

In this novel scarcely anything calls for notice The encies see 'such happiness' and 'such an happiness,' at the end of Chapter III; between 'by all who called themselves her friends' and 'by all who call themselves her friends,' in Chapter xxxII; and 'one of the happiest couples' or 'one of the happiest couple,' in Chapter L

Johnson's 1892 edition has an unfortunate blunder at the beginning of Chapter xxxII: reading 'their effect on her was entirely such as the former had hoped to see,' instead of 'their effect on her was not entirely,' &c

'PRIDE AND PREJUDICE'

1 The first passage that we consider to be frequentlyher husband an account of the Meryton asseley's partners The first three editions, followed by Mr Johnson, the Winchester and Hampshi+re Editions, print thus:--

'Then the two third he danced with Miss King, and the two fourth with Maria Lucas, and the two fifth with Jane again, and the two sixth with Lizzie and the Boulanger'