PORTRAIT

        As with *Exiles* and *Dubliners*, the edition I have used is *The
Essential James Joyce*, the 1973 Penguin reprint of Jonathan Cape's
edition of 1948. As usual, I have corrected a good number of what
appeared to me to be obvious misprints, as well as the following:

Chapter 1. In the paragraph beginning: 'There was a cold night smell
in the chapel', JC has 'they were little cottages there ....', which I
have written as 'there were little ....'.

Chapter 2. In the paragraph beginning: 'Dublin was a new and complex
sensation', JC has '.... and the illdressed bearded policeman'. Surely
'policemen' - even in Dublin, the docks must have required more than
one.
        Mr Dedalus's *come-all-you* in the bedroom of the Victoria
Hotel, Cork ('Tis youth and folly') has, in the second verse, 'My love
she's bony'. This may well be, but I have substituted 'bonny'.

Chapter 4. In the third paragraph, JC has '....centuries of days and
quarantines and years;'. I have written 'quarantines of years'.
        In the following paragraph, 'every instance of consciousness'
should, I think, be 'every instant'.
        In the paragraph beginning: 'This idea of surrender had a
perilous attraction ....' JC has '.... and, seeing the silver line of
the floor far away ....'. This should, of course, be 'flood'.
        When Stephen sees the group of christian brothers crossing the
wooden bridge on the way back from the Bull, the paragraph in JC
reads:
        'Their piety would be like their names, like their faces, like
their clothes; and it was idle for him to tell himself that their
humble and contrite hearts, it might be, paid a far richer tribute of
devotion than his had ever been, a gift tenfold more acceptable ....'.
I think 'been' should be 'done', but I have left 'been' in place,
since it is probably what Joyce wrote.

Chapter 5. In the paragraph beginning: 'The lore which he was believed
to pass his days ....', JC has 'as if it had been fire consumed' - I
have read 'by fire'.
        During Stephen's argument with MacCann about the universal
peace petition, JC has 'Stephen, moving away the bystanders, jerked
his shoulder angrily ....'. This is a bit too forceful - I have
inserted 'from' between 'away' and 'the'.

        Finally, the usual list of ASCII substitutions:

ACCENTS. None!

ITALICS (toggled by *).

                Chapter 1: 29 sets.     17703 words.
                Chapter 2: 24 sets.     14633 words.
                Chapter 3: 17 sets.     16576 words.
                Chapter 4:  4 sets.      9567 words.
                CHapter 5: 87 sets.     26276 words.


David J Wilson
Ivy Cottage
Chathill
Northumberland
NE67 5DE                                                October 1992