134087 OCT 20 1309 ། PREFACE Ir was the duty of the writer to endeavour to combine in this volume the manifold detail which the student requires, with the points of view and the modes of treatment which make a book readable. How far he has succeeded, others must judge. He has thought it due to the subject and the reader to express frankly the impression on his own mind which the various topics have made. He hopes, notwithstanding, that he has not allowed personal bias to obscure the objective realities of the history. In the Appendix, besides supplementary notes on literature a few details are added which had been accidentally omitted in the text. |