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.

Page 40: "one of the betters." was printed with that spelling.

Page 90: "clandestine hell" was printed that way, not as "hall".

Page 216: The hyperlinks assigned by the Transcriber to the "part" and "chapter" references on this page may be incorrect: two links were provided because there is no "part vii" in either of the two "chapter ix's".

Page 259: "where it begins?" was printed with the question mark.

Footnote J (originally on page 179) refers to a figure on page 219, and a "2" was handwritten over the "1", but the figure actually appears on page 228. The reference has been corrected in this eBook.