Transcriber’s Notes
Reading edition
Retained publication information from the printed edition: this eBook is public-domain in the country of publication.
Silently corrected a few palpable typos; left intentionally nonstandard usage unchanged.
In the text versions only, text in italics is delimited by _underscores_.
In the text versions only, superscript text is preceded by ^caret.
In the text versions only, subscript text is preceded by _underscore.