Punctuation and spelling inaccuracies were silently corrected.
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.
pp. 152, 154: two instances of “Ferry Hill,” which should be “Beechcroft” school, were left unchanged. The author erroneously identified the school with that in another book written by him during the same time period.