Transcriber's Note:

Some minor obvious typographical errors have been corrected without comment. The remaining corrections made are indicated by dotted lines under the corrections. Scroll the cursor over the word and the original text will appear.
Footnotes and illustrations have been moved to underneath the paragraph they refer to so as to not disrupt the flow of the text. Page numbers in the List of Illustrations are therefore not always correct. The hyperlinks point directly to the illustrations, and page numbers in references to illustrations have not been hyperlinked.
The letter "a" after the page number has been added in the html and refers to the back advertisement pages after the main body of the book.)
In the original, blank pages following full page illustrations were numbered. These have been removed in the html, therefore there are slight inconsistencies in page numbering.

Multiple versions of words not changed: