TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:Illustrations have been moved to the nearest, most appropriate paragraph break and, as a result, may not be located on the page indicated in the "List of Illustrations".In the original text, some internal references to illustrations give incorrect page numbers. These have been left unchanged in this version, though the html links have been adjusted to direct the reader to the correct illustrations.Obvious errors in spelling and punctuation have been corrected without comment. One example of an obvious error is on page 126 where the word "perservation" was changed to "preservation" in the phrase: "... preservation of all perishable food...."With the exception of obvious errors, inconsistencies in the author's spelling and use of punctuation and hyphenation are left unchanged, as in the original text.One error which has been retained in this version is onPage 415, where the attribution line for the poem reads "Walter Savage Landor" while the correct author of the poem is actually Alfred Lord Tennyson.
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:
Illustrations have been moved to the nearest, most appropriate paragraph break and, as a result, may not be located on the page indicated in the "List of Illustrations".
In the original text, some internal references to illustrations give incorrect page numbers. These have been left unchanged in this version, though the html links have been adjusted to direct the reader to the correct illustrations.
Obvious errors in spelling and punctuation have been corrected without comment. One example of an obvious error is on page 126 where the word "perservation" was changed to "preservation" in the phrase: "... preservation of all perishable food...."
With the exception of obvious errors, inconsistencies in the author's spelling and use of punctuation and hyphenation are left unchanged, as in the original text.
One error which has been retained in this version is onPage 415, where the attribution line for the poem reads "Walter Savage Landor" while the correct author of the poem is actually Alfred Lord Tennyson.