TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES:
The cover image for this eBook was created by the transcriber using the original cover as the background and is placed into the public domain.
The sidenotes in this eBook appear in the original as page headers on odd numbered pages and have been moved to the beginning of the paragraphs to which they refer.
The paragraph mentioned in the Errata should go between youth. and Preparations on page 28.
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.
Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized.