Transcriber’s Note:

Dialect, obsolete, alternative, and misspelled words were not changed.

Obvious printing errors, such as duplicate words, backwards, upside down, unprinted, or partially printed letters and punctuation, were completed. Final stops missing at the end of sentences were added. Missing punctuation was added or corrected at beginning and ends of sentences, lines of poetry, and abbreviations.

The copyright line at the bottom of the first page of each monthly volume was moved to follow the volume number and date. Footnotes were numbered sequentially and were moved to the end of the article in which the related anchors occur.

The following were adjusted:

Noted, left unchanged: there is no decimal between dollars and cents for the price of books in the New Publications sections.