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.