Transcriber’s Notes:
Except for the frontispiece, illustrations have been moved to follow the text that they illustrate, so the page number of the illustration may not match the page number in the Illustrations.
Punctuation and spelling inaccuracies were silently corrected, except as noted below.
Archaic and variable spelling has been preserved.
Variations in hyphenation and compound words have been preserved.
The author’s em-dash style has been retained.
Differences in M’Natt (chapter titles) and McNatt (Contents) for Chapters IX, XVII, and XXIII titles have been retained.