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.
Halftone patterns in some illustrations could not be entirely obscured.
Footnotes, originally at the bottoms of pages, have been collected, renumbered, and placed just before the Index.
The index was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references. It was not always possible to determine whether or not some references were in boldface.
“Strawinsky” is spelled that way throughout this book.
[Page 209]: “surexcess” was printed that way.
[Page 219]: “gettings” was printed that way.
[Page 379]: “Indominatable” was printed that way.
[Page 395]: “Cæsar, Irving” was mispelled here, but spelled correctly on the referenced page.