Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed. Spelling variants in quoted passages were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.

Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.

Index not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.

Page [172]: “wrapt attention” was printed that way.

Page [177]: “downright” was printed that way, rather than as “down right”.

Page [200]: Opening quotation mark added before “I march”.

Page [234]: “doing their upmost” was printed that way.

[Footnote 9] (originally on page [42]): Missing closing quotation mark added at the end of the footnote.