Transcriber’s Notes
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.
The entries in the Table of Contents for pages 389 and 391 do not have corresponding sub-headings on the referenced pages, and the sub-heading on page 85 is not mentioned in the Table of Contents.
Page 28: “de-gradation” was printed with the hyphen; in context, this appears to be intentional.
Page 40: “through the school” was printed as “though the school”; changed here.
Page 111: Extraneous opening quotation mark removed before “Here, too, the”.
Page 191: Unmatched closing quotation mark retained after “national honor and prosperity.”
Page 237: Unmatched opening quotation mark removed before “Pastoral Association of Massachusetts”.
Page 354: The second line of poetry, beginning “And in my soul’s just estimation”, was printed as one very long line. In other books, those lines are in several different ways.