● Transcriber’s Notes: ○ Missing or obscured punctuation was corrected. ○ Unbalanced quotation marks were left as the author intended. ○ Typographical errors were silently corrected. ○ Spelling and hyphenation were made consistent when a predominant form was found in this book; otherwise it was not changed. ○ Illustrations marked with ‡ were created by the transcriber. ○ Text in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_).