Transcriber’s Notes
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.
Index not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.
Hemi-titles that duplicate the immediately-following chapter title have been deleted from this eBook.
Page [3]: “villany” was printed that way.
Page [43]: “romancists” was printed that way; may be a misprint for “romanticists”.
Page [78]: “are current Paracelsus” was printed that way; perhaps a question mark should have been used after “current”.
Page [284]: Paragraph beginning “Elizabeth was as loyal to Parry” contains unbalanced quotation marks.
Page [325]: “some form revenge on” was printed that way; seems to be missing an “of”.