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 Errata following page 376 have been corrected in this eBook.
Footnotes, originally at the bottoms of the pages that referenced them, have been collected, sequentially renumbered, and placed near the end of the book, just before the index.
The index was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.
Page 203: “West Kent Grammer School” was printed that way.
Pages 277–278: In the original book, the speakers’ names were to the left of the dialog. In this eBook, they are above the dialog.
Ditto marks in the Appendices of this eBook are not aligned as nicely as in the original book.
Pages 368–374: In the original book, asterisks indicating “not in existence” were positioned at the left sides of the lines. In this ebook, they are positioned at the right sides.