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 spelling and accent marks in non-English text were not checked for accuracy.

Index not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.

Page 26: Missing opening quotation marks added before “Think of it!” and before “Well, it belonged to”.

Page 110: “Duke d’Aumule” is listed on page 313 of the Index as “d’Aunale, Duc”. The common spelling today is “d’Aumale”.