TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES:

In the plain text version text in italics is enclosed by underscores(_italics_), small capitals are represented in upper case as inSMALL CAPS, text in bold is represented as in =text in bold=.

The book cover was modified by the transcriber and has been added tothe public domain.

A number of words in this book have both hyphenated and non-hyphenatedvariants. For the words with both variants present the one more usedhas been kept.

Obvious punctuation and other printing errors have been corrected.