Transcriber’s Note
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; unpaired quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unpaired.
[Page 63]: “unparalleled” was printed as “unparalled”; corrected here.
[Page 73]: The poem attributed to Ben Johnson was written by John Keates, and differs from standard versions of the poem.
[Page 167]: “Hephæstus” was printed without the “t”, but the pronunciation was printed with it.