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.
Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations. In versions of this eBook that support hyperlinks, the page references in the List of Illustrations lead to the corresponding illustrations.
Cover created by Transcriber and placed into the Public Domain.
Redundant book title removed on page before [page 3].
[Page 8]: “of a talented and beautiful women” was printed that way.
[Page 176]: “workaday” was misprinted as “wordaday”.
[Page 496]: “wordly” was printed that way.