[Transcriber's Notes]
Simple typographical errors were corrected.
Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
Spelling in "dialect" passages not changed.
German nouns printed in lower-case have not been changed to upper-case.
Inconsistently-spaced abbreviations have not been changed.
The following three typographical errors were corrected by referencing a later edition of this book:
Page 90, paragraph ending: "Liverpool or Liverpool?" ended with a comma and closing quote.
Page 144 "the latter being" was printed as "the later being".
Page 287: "model cities" was printed as "model cites".