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.
Printer’s placement designations omitted from illustrations.
The index was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.
In the Plain Text version of this ebook, o͞o indicates a macron above oo, o͝o indicates a breve above oo, and y̆ indicates a breve above y. These diacritics displayed directly above the oo’s and the y in Browsers, as they did in the original book.