TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES
1. Images have been moved from the middle of a paragraph to the closest paragraph break. And footnotes have been moved to the end of the text in this html version.
2. Some selections for Richard Watson Gilder are different from those mentioned in the Table of Contents.
3. The frontispiece "The Alexander Romance" and the photogravure "The Bride's Toilet" mentioned in the "Full-Page Illustrations" list are missing from this html version.
4. The original text includes Greek characters. For this html version these letters have been replaced with transliterations.
5. Other than the corrections listed above, printer's inconsistencies in spelling, punctuation, hyphenation, and ligature usage have been retained.