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; heavy use of commas has been retained.

Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.

With the exception of the Frontispiece, all uncaptioned illustrations are decorative tailpieces.

Page vi: “Westenhouse was printed that way.”

Page 134: Quotation marks added to surround the paragraph beginning “In the coming down”.

Page 143: Closing quotation mark added to the paragraph ending “upon the suffering.”

Page 151: The closing quotation mark in paragraph ending “the Lord knoweth them that are his.” appears to represent the close of a quotation within a quotation.

Page 170: Extraneous closing quotation mark deleted following “she wore a heavy, plain, gold ring.”