Transcriber's note:
Spelling and punctuation are sometimes erratic. A few obvious misprints have been corrected, but in general the original spelling and typesetting conventions have been retained. Accents are inconsistent, and have not been standardised.
The cover for the eBook version of this book was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
The transcriber has made the following changes:
1. Supplied anchors for footnotes 1 and 3.
2. Page 644: Missing single ending quote has been added—'Count heads'.
3. Page 736: Incorrect stanza number "XXI" has been changed to "XIX".
4. Page 760: "were supposed not be be quite up to the mark"—changed "be be" to "to be".