--Copyright notice provided as in the original—this e-text is public
domain in the country of publication.
--Generated a Table of Contents based on the original chapter headings.
--Omitted still-copyrighted illustrations from the printed original.
--Generated a new Cover Image based on elements from the book.
--Silently corrected palpable typos; left non-standard spellings and
dialect unchanged.
--In the text versions, delimited italics text in _underscores_ (the
HTML version reproduces the font form of the printed book.)
--Reversed the order of pages 86 and 87 to make the text coherent (and
marked the exact limits of the re-ordered blocks by a dagger, †).