Archaic, variable, and misspelled words and punctuation inconsistancies have been preserved as printed in all of the quoted material with one exception. This includes all poetry, quotations, letters, and documents. The one exception is in the poem Childe Harold, a section of which is quoted in the Appendix, Section IX. The word =scimeter= was changed to =scimitar= because it is spelled correctly in the original poem by Lord Byron located at PG, EText-No. 5131, Canto IV, Stanza XVI. The following changes were made to the original text. The correction is enclosed in brackets: Page 106: and they skurried away [scurried] Page 116: but the fact incontestibly proves, [incontestably] Page 187: My mother was in close attendance upon sick members of my sister's family? [changed punctuation to a period] Page 230: Fall from his hands--his idle scimetar [scimitar] The following word has been found in both hyphenated and unhyphenated form in the original text: road-side (roadside). The original hyphenation has been preserved. Footnotes have been numbered consecutively and have been placed at the end of each chapter. Superscripted letters in the original book and the HTML version are represented by ^{} in the text version. The "long i" macron is respresented in the text as [=i].