Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected.

Unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious or the quotation was found in other sources. The others remain unbalanced.

The illustration on the Title page is a decorative floral; the other illustrations are decorative headpieces.

Page 109: “the band of fate” was printed that way.

Page 187: Opening quotation mark has no matching closing mark.