Transcriber’s Notes
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.
Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations. In versions of this eBook that support hyperlinks, the page references in the List of Illustrations lead to the corresponding illustrations.
The “illustration” under “WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR” is just a decoration. The illustration on the Title page is the publisher’s logo.
[Page 110]: “chank shells” was misprinted as “chanks hells”; corrected here.
[Page 177]: “isophily” was printed that way.