Transcriber’s Note
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; unpaired quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unpaired.
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 [List of Illustrations] refers to an illustration on the cover, but the source of this eBook did not include that illustration.
Footnotes originally were at the bottoms of pages; in this eBook, they have been sequentially renumbered and placed at the end of the book.