TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE

This is Volume 2 of a 3-volume set. The other two volumes are also accessible in Project Gutenberg using [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48136] and [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48138].

Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.

Several pages of the book contain a [description and examples] of a modified alphabet proposed by B.F. There are six new characters in his alphabet; these, and the example text using them (pages 360-366 in the original book) are shown as images in this ebook.

More detail can be found at the [end of the book].

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