Transcriber’s Note
The cover image has been fabricated and is placed in the public domain.
Punctuation is sometimes missing from the images used to create this text, and has been restored. Normally, there is space where the punctuation was intended. Commas are sometimes vestigial, appearing as full stops, and have also been restored, without further comment. On occasion the punctuation is simply incorrect, and has been changed to follow the conventions elsewhere.
For example, from p. 81:
“... or deep blue, or washed with an amethystine tint[,/.] Arching over all bends the cloudless azure of the canopy.”
or, from p. 237:
so here it is, or at least so much of it as relates to the boy[:]
Spelling is not entirely consistent and is left as printed, with the exceptions noted below. Hyphenation of compound words varies. Where the sole instance appears on a line break, the hyphen is generally retained.
The word ‘height’ was spelled twice as ‘hight’ (p. 225 & 316), and both instances were retained. The caption of the image on p. 21 is spelled ‘PHEBE’, but appears as ‘PHŒBE’ in the list of illustrations. It is also retained.
The following table summarizes any other obvious printer’s errors that have been corrected. It also includes a number of dubious spellings or questionable usage. Misspellings in quoted text are retained.