This e-text was prepared from numbered edition 505 of the 1000 printed. Minor punctuation and capitalization corrections have been made without comment. Minor typographical errors of single words, otherwise spelled correctly throughout the text have been made without comment. Word Variations appearing in the original text which have been retained: "pocket-book" (1) and "pocketbook" (3) "protege" (2) and "protegee" (3) Words using the [oe] ligature, which have been herein represented as "oe": "Croesus." Throughout the text, illustrations and their captions were placed on facing pages. For the purpose of this e-text these pages have been combined into one entry. Footnotes, originally at the bottom of a printed page, have been placed directly below the paragraph in which their anchor symbol appears.