Transcriber’s Notes
Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks remedied.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained; occurrences of inconsistent hyphenation have not been changed.
Index not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references. Links to pages in Volume I (double-underlined) may not be supported by some eReaders.
The symbol on page [278] is a hand, pointing to the right (“white right-pointing index”).
Volume I is available at [Project Gutenberg] (https://www.gutenberg.org) as eBook number [58667] (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58667).