Transcriber's Notes
Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained and are not individually noted here.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.
Page [10]: The list of Illustrations is incomplete.
Page [227]: "beneath his feet" was misprinted as "beneath hi feet" (with extra space where the "s" belongs); corrected here.