Transcriber’s Notes
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; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.
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.
The index was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references. Discrepancies between index entries and the text they reference were resolved in favor of the referenced text.
[Page VI]: The top of the "B" in the signature of H. W. Buse, Jr. was "clipped" in the original book and not repaired here.
[Page 241], [footnote 351] (originally footnote 14): “176–175” was printed that way.