TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
The ‘Table of Contents’ has been created and inserted before the Preface by the Transcriber.
The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
Omitted text in quotations was indicated by ‘ * * ’ in the original book, sometimes ‘ * * * ’, and this has been retained in the etext.
Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.
More detail can be found at the [end of the book.]