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.
Pages 410 and 413: “See Note” was printed at the bottom of page 409, but wasn’t referenced on any page. The note on page 413 was not referenced on that page. Both of these omissions were corrected in a later printing of the same edition of this book, and Transcriber has adjusted both notes to be consistent with those corrections.
The last few chapters of the original book did not begin with drop-cap letters; this ebook follows that format.