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.
Spelling discrepancies between the main text and the Index were resolved in favor of the main text.
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.
Most full-page illustrations included printer’s instructions specifying “To face p. xxx.” Those instructions have been removed from this eBook.
Footnotes, originally at the bottoms of pages, have been collected, sequentially numbered, and placed at the end of this eBook, just before the Index. References to those footnotes have been renumbered in the same way.
The index was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.