Obvious typographical errors repaired. Punctuation, spelling, hyphenation and stylistic presentation standardized when a predominant preference was found in this book. Otherwise left as printed.

Where possible, illustrations have been moved next to the corresponding text, otherwise placed at section breaks.

In the original book, outlines of each chapter were printed on separate pages, preceded by chapter headings. These chapter headings were then repeated before the chapter text proper. In this electronic book the repeated chapter headings are not preserved.

For less common abbreviations and Roman numerals, title attributes have been provided for the convenience of screenreader users.

Page 80, ‘Tyer’ changed to ‘Iyer’ (Mr. Justice Moothoswami Iyer).

Footnote 34, ‘Caffin’ changed to ‘Coffin’ (“On the Education of Backward Races,” E. W. Coffin).

Page 134, ‘plead’ changed to ‘pleaded’ (Earnestly he pleaded with the missionaries).

Page 147 (sidenote), ‘year’ changed to ‘years’ (Dr. Balliet on the early years of childhood).

Page 189 (sidenote), ‘religous’ changed to ‘religious’ (Result to the child of religious acts).

Page 192, ‘then’ changed to ‘than’ (Worse than all the results).

Page 194, ‘jewlery’ changed to ‘jewelry’ (some article of jewelry).

Page 272, ‘American’ changed to ‘Armenian’ (Orphans, Armenian massacre).

On page 231, there is an orphaned double quotation mark after ‘babyhood’. The opening mark should probably be before ‘Women spoke from the platform’ etc.