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 appearance of the Table of Contents has been altered slightly.

Index not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.

In the Index, it was unclear to the Transcriber whether some of the indentations indicated sub-entries or implied ditto marks, so the indentations have been treated here as multiple levels of sub-entries.