Transcriber’s Note

This book uses inconsistent spelling and hyphenation, which were retained in the ebook version. Ditto marks, dashes and spaces used to represent repeated text have been replaced with the text that they represent. Some corrections have been made to the text, including normalizing punctuation. Further corrections are noted below:

p. [63]: admitted in jacket and towsers-> admitted in jacket and trowsers

p. [78]: the downfal of Gothic architecture -> the downfall of Gothic architecture

p. [202]: set in a frameof magnificent mountains -> set in a frame of magnificent mountains

p. [323]: places were the agitation was -> places where the agitation was

p. [362]: shortening the the nave -> shortening the nave