Obvious punctuation and spelling errors repaired.

Page numbers for blank pages, pages consisting entirely of illustration, are not visible.

Inconsistent hyphenation has been repaired.

The oe and ae ligatures in the text has been left as it appears in the original book. If they do not display properly, you may have an incompatible browser or unavailable fonts. Make sure that the browser's "character set" or "file encoding" is set to Unicode (UTF-8). You may also need to change your browser's default font.

In ambiguous cases, the text has been left as it appears in the original book. In particular, many mismatched quotation marks have not been changed.

The remaining corrections made are indicated by lines under the corrections. Scroll the mouse over the word and the original text will be displayed.