Transcriber's Note
Reading edition
The following changes have been made to the text as printed:
Footnotes have been renumbered and assembled at the end of each chapter.
A small number of errors in the punctuation and spacing of the original work have been silently corrected.
Page 34: re-referred has been corrected to referred.
Page 39: A missing footnote marker has been inserted after impatient at idleness:.
Page 40: A missing footnote marker has been inserted after sensible remark.
Footnote 19, 5th line from end: τρὸς has been corrected to πρὸς.
Footnote 28: Οεωδώρηον has been corrected to Θεωδώρηον.
Footnote 41: γυμναστικήν has been corrected to γυμναστικὴν.
Footnote 44: θεατής has been corrected to θεατὴς.
Page 86: spritually has been corrected to spiritually.
Page 96: Comma removed from St. John, Chrysostom.
Footnote 59, start of third sentence: Η (Greek letter) has been corrected to Ἢ.
Footnote 67, second sentence: χόρος has been corrected to χορός.
Page 141, Index: Διαδόχος has been corrected to Διάδοχος.
Page 143, Index: Ptolemeion referenced to Page 134, not Page 151.
The following anomaly in the printed text is noted, but no change has been made:
Page 146, Index: Appletons’ Journal (New York City, 1869–1881) printed its own name with the apostrophe in that unexpected position.