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.

Index not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.

Hemi-titles that duplicate the immediately-following chapter title have been deleted from this eBook.

Page 3: “villany” was printed that way.

Page 43: “romancists” was printed that way; may be a misprint for “romanticists”.

Page 78: “are current Paracelsus” was printed that way; perhaps a question mark should have been used after “current”.

Page 284: Paragraph beginning “Elizabeth was as loyal to Parry” contains unbalanced quotation marks.

Page 325: “some form revenge on” was printed that way; seems to be missing an “of”.