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.

Contents: “Idiosyncraces” was printed that way; page 83: “IDIOSYNCRACIES” was printed that way.

Page 83: “clairavoyant” was printed that way.