Transcribers Notes:
A. Table of Contents: Original text abbreviated some of the Chapter titles, specifically;
1. "Improving the Lives of the Rich", (pg. 118); full title is: "Annual Report of the League for Improving the Lives of the Rich";
2. "A Wild Polish Hero", (pg. 165); the entire chapter title is: "A Wild Polish Hero and the Reverend Lyman Abbott"
B. Printers errors corrected;
1. pg. 143 - "it" to "is" (I fear there is not.)
2. pg. 180 - "he" to "be" (should be arranged.)
C. List of word variations appearing in this text which have been retained;
1. "businesslike" and "business-like"
2. "offhand" and "off-hand"
3. "sunsets" and "sun-sets"
4. "today" and "to-day"