Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed. Spelling variants in quoted passages were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.

Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.

Index not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.

Page 172: “wrapt attention” was printed that way.

Page 177: “downright” was printed that way, rather than as “down right”.

Page 200: Opening quotation mark added before “I march”.

Page 234: “doing their upmost” was printed that way.

Footnote 9 (originally on page 42): Missing closing quotation mark added at the end of the footnote.