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.
Transcriber made some minor adjustments to the List of Illustrations to make it more useful with electronic media.
Transcriber copied captions in the List of Illustrations to the corresponding illustrations that did not have captions or whose captions were unclear. Transcriber also attempted to increase the contrast of very light text within some illustrations.
Footnotes, originally at the bottoms of the pages from which they were referenced, have been collected, sequentially renumbered, and repositioned just before the Index.
The index was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.
Some Roman numerals ended with “j”. Transcriber changed those to “i”.
Page 76: “he retailed” was printed that way.