Front matter
Reading edition
Transcriber’s Note:
The positions of most illustrations have been adjusted slightly to fall on paragraph breaks. In most cases, any text included in the illustrations has been presented as a caption.
Those images which are employed at the opening of each chapter sometimes incorporate the first character in the illustration itself, but sometimes simply give that character in a large font. Normally the latter have a caption. This version follows the appearance of the text as well as possible.
The wide table that appeared on p. 25 of the original may require a change of font size in your reader in order to be completely rendered.
Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation.
The cover image has been created, based on title page information, and is added to the public domain.
