TRANSCRIBERS’ NOTES
The following changes have been applied to the text:
- Page 30: “transcience” changed to “[transience]”: It was a plaint on the transience of worldly glory
- Page 94: a period was added to the end of: reaches a high state of cultivation with [them.]
- Page 95: “pendative” changed to “[pendentive]”: The carved wood ceilings were in pendentive designs
- Page 125: “Macchiavellian” changed to “[Machiavellian]”: no Machiavellian schemes would be forwarded
- Page 204: “pendatives” changed to “[pendentives]”: dome, with elaborately carved pendentives, was painted in
- Page 238: “ge” changed to “[get]”: it was impossible to get any atmosphere in the background
- Page 247: “Hierachy” changed to “[Hierarchy]”: the Priestly Hierarchy of the whole
All inconsistencies in the hyphenation of words and the spelling of names have been standardized.