[Transcriber’s Notes]
Cover created by Transcriber and placed in the Public Domain.
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.
Spelling of non-English words was not reviewed.
Text uses both “appreciate” and “appretiate”; both retained.
Index not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.