Transcriber’s Notes
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.
Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations. In versions of this eBook that support hyperlinks, the page references in the List of Illustrations lead to the corresponding illustrations.
The end-papers referenced in the List of Illustrations were not found.
In this and some other some printings or scans of this book, the illustration "Wayang Figures from the Island of Bali" follows page 38, not page 28. The page number in the List of Illustrations and the position of the illustration in the text have not been changed here, but the link in the HTML version of this eBook goes to the actual image.
Footnotes, originally at the bottoms of pages, have been resequenced, collected, and positioned just before the Index.
The index was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.