Transcriber’s Notes
Reading edition
Retained publication information from the printed edition: this eBook is public-domain in the country of publication.
Corrected a few palpable typographical errors.
Placed illustration captions below the corresponding illustration.
Modified references to illustration locations to correspond to the reality of a flowing eText, e.g. “shown on the opposite page” might be converted to “shown below” or “shown here”.
In the text versions only, text in italics is delimited by _underscores_.