Transcriber’s Notes
Reading edition
Copyright notice provided as in the original printed text—this e-text is public domain in the country of publication.
Silently corrected palpable typos; left non-standard spellings and dialect unchanged.
Moved promotional material to the end of the text, and moved illustrations to the appropriate place in the text.
In the text versions, included italics inside _underscores_ (the HTML version replicates the format of the original.)