Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a
predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not
changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced
quotation marks retained.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.
The entries in the Table of Contents for pages 389 and 391 do not have
corresponding sub-headings on the referenced pages, and the sub-heading
on page 85 is not mentioned in the Table of Contents.
Page 28: “de-gradation” was printed with the hyphen; in context, this
appears to be intentional.
Page 40: “through the school” was printed as “though the school”;
changed here.
Page 111: Extraneous opening quotation mark removed before “Here, too,
the”.
Page 191: Unmatched closing quotation mark retained after “national
honor and prosperity.”
Page 237: Unmatched opening quotation mark removed before “Pastoral
Association of Massachusetts”.
Page 354: The second line of poetry, beginning “And in my soul’s just
estimation”, was printed as one very long line. In other books, those
lines are in several different ways.