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

Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.

Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations. In versions of this eBook that support hyperlinks, the page references in the List of Illustrations lead to the corresponding illustrations.

Transcribers improved readability of some numbers in some illustrations, and switched the transcribed sequence of the text of one pair of “random pages” (following page 26) to make it easier to follow.

Transcriber corrected the Title page misspelling of “SMALLL, MAYNARD & COMPANY” to “SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY”, which is how it appears on the Copyright page. Transcriber removed redundant book title just above the title of the first chapter.