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.
The index was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.
Footnotes, originally at the bottoms of the pages on which they were referenced, have been collected, renumbered, and placed just before the Index.
Some page numbers in the Table of Contents are out of sequence, as they were in the original book.
The correct spelling of the name, “Ayers”, likely is “Ayres”.