TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES:
In the plain text version text in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_), Small Capitals are represented in upper case as in SMALL CAPS and the sign ^ before any letter or text, like ^e, represents "e" as a superscript.
A number of words in this book have both hyphenated and non-hyphenated variants. For the words with both variants present the one more used has been kept.
Obvious punctuation and other printing errors have been corrected.
The original cover art has been modified by the transcriber and is granted to the public domain.