Front matter
Reading edition
Transcriber's Notes: There are a number of quotations in this work, many of which contain archaic spelling and/or dialect. There are also several occurrences of variant spelling and hyphenation used by the author. These have all been retained as printed, with a few exceptions relating to proper names or references to quotations, which are listed at the end of the text. Printing errors (transposed or missing letters, etc.) have been corrected throughout. This book sometimes uses asterisks to indicate an ellipsis.