Transcriber’s Note

This transcription is based on images scanned from a copy made available by the University of Toronto and posted by the Internet Archive at:

The following changes were noted:

p. 70: “Let it start smouldering at once I must—Inserted period after “once”.
p. 196: Even make pretences to re ard—Changed “re ard” to “regard”.
p. 203: Eupompus’ next picture, representing an orchard of identical trees—As this paragraph is a continuation of Emberlin’s speech, an opening double quotation mark was inserted at the beginning of the paragraph.
p. 243: How exciting it was, wasn’t it, HENRIKA?—Changed “HENRIKA” from small caps to “Henrika”.