By MRS. JOHN LANE
THE CHAMPAGNE STANDARD
Crown 8vo. 6s.Fourth Edition
Morning Post:—"The author's champagne overflows with witty sayings too numerous to cite."
Academy:—"Mrs. Lane may congratulate herself on having that blessed sense of humour which is one of the most valuable possessions in life."
Pall Mall Gazette:—"Mrs. Lane's papers on our social manners and foibles are the most entertaining, the kindest, and the truest that have been offered us for a long time…. The book shows an airy philosophy that will render it of service to the social student."
Athenæum:—"Mrs. Lane treats each subject with such freshness and originality that the work is as entertaining as it is suggestive."
KITWYK
Crown 8vo. 6s.
With numerous Illustrations by ALBERT STERNER, HOWARD PYLE, and GEORGE WHARTON EDWARDS.
Times:—"Mrs. Lane has succeeded to admiration, and chiefly by reason of being so much interested in her theme that she makes no conscious effort to please…. Everyone who seeks to be diverted will read 'Kitwyk' for its obvious qualities of entertainment."
By GERTRUDE ATHERTON
SENATOR NORTH
Crown 8vo. 6s.Seventeenth Edition
New York Herald:—"In the description of Washington life Mrs. Atherton shows not only a very considerable knowledge of externals, but also an insight into the underlying political issues that is remarkable."
Outlook:—"The novel has genuine historical value."
THE ARISTOCRATS
Crown 8vo. 6s.Twenty-third Thousand
The Times:—"Clever and entertaining…. This gay volume is written by some one with a pretty wit, an eye for scenery, and a mind quick to grasp natural as well as individual characteristics. Her investigations into the American character are acute as well as amusing."
The Onlooker:—"I have no hesitation in recommending it strongly to my readers' notice…. It contains the most delicious satire and the brightest writing that has been published for a long time."
By GRANT ALLEN
THE WOMAN WHO DID
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Pall Mall Gazette:—"His sincerity is undeniable. And in the mouth of Herminia are some very noble and eloquent passages upon the wrongs of our marriage system."
Scotsman:—"The story is as remarkable for its art as for its daring."
THE BRITISH BARBARIANS
Crown 8vo. 3s.6d.net Second Edition
Academy:—"There can be no doubt that Mr. Grant Allen is sincere in what he here expounds, and if for no other reason, 'The British Barbarians' at least deserves consideration."
Vanity Fair:—"The book is a clever, trenchant satire on the petty conventionalities of modern life."
ANONYMOUS
THE MS. IN A RED BOX
Crown 8vo. 6s.Second Edition
Speaker:—"It is that rarest and most welcome of works, a good romance of pure fiction…. The use made of local colour and historical incident is one of the author's unknown triumphs…. In these respects … it is the best novel that has appeared since 'Lorna Doone.' One of the most exciting books of its own kind that we have ever read."
By RICHARD BAGOT
THE JUST AND THE UNJUST
Crown 8vo. 6s.Third Edition
Spectator:—"It is purely a novel of society, and is interesting chiefly because it gives real portraits of the world as we know it. Readers who like a novel dealing with the world they live in, and peopled, not with dummies, but with real live characters, will find 'The Just and the Unjust' a thoroughly amusing and interesting book."
Manchester Guardian:—"There is much brilliant writing in the book, the style is excellent, and the characters are admirably drawn."
St. James's Gazette:—"Mr. Richard Bagot has put some capital work into his new novel, 'The Just and the Unjust.' The plot is good, the story is well constructed, and delicate situations are delicately handled."
Westminster Gazette:—"Mr. Bagot knows the world of which he writes, and the character studies in this volume are drawn with subtlety."
By ARNOLD BENNETT
A MAN FROM THE NORTH
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Black and White:—"A work that will come to the jaded novel reader as a splendid surprise."
Outlook:—"Literary insight and comprehension."
Daily Chronicle:—"Admirably fresh and brisk, vibrating with a wild, young ecstasy."
By H. H. BASHFORD
THE MANITOBAN
By the Author of "Tommy Wideawake"
Crown 8vo. 6s.
Morning Post:—"Nothing save admiration will be felt for the sketches of Canadian life and character."
Literary World:—"Mr. Bashford's clever and absorbing story."
By HARRY BENTLEY
THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE
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Standard:"A story uncommonly rich in observation and in promise."
By EX-LIEUT. BILSE
LIFE IN A GARRISON TOWN
(AUS EINER KLEINEN GARNISON)
With Portrait of the Author, Summary of the Court-Martial, Introduction byArnold White, and New Preface written by the Author in Prison.
Crown 8vo. 6s.Fourth Edition
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DEAR FATHERLAND
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Daily Telegraph:—"At once fascinating and disgusting…. The book is a terrible indictment of the soulless and brutalised militarism of the Fatherland…. A strong book, and one to be read by all interested in the present and future of the German Empire."
By T. B. CLEGG
THE LOVE CHILD
Crown 8vo. 6s.Second Edition
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Daily Telegraph:—"A strong and interesting story, the fruit of careful thought and conscientious workmanship…. Mr. Clegg has presented intensely dramatic situations without letting them degenerate into the melodramatic."
Pall Mall Gazette:—"Mr. Clegg's book is one that will be remembered."
THE WILDERNESS
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By G. K. CHESTERTON
THE NAPOLEON OF NOTTING HILL
With Seven Illustrations and a Cover Design byW. Graham Robertson, and a Map of the Seat of War.
Crown 8vo. 6s.
Mr.James Douglas, in theStar:—"An allegorical romance, a didactic fantasy, a humorous whimsy. It is not easy to say what it means; Mr. Chesterton himself probably does not know."
Daily Mail:—"Mr. Chesterton, as our laughing philosopher, is at his best in this delightful fantasy."
Westminster Gazette:—"It is undeniably clever. It scintillates—that is exactly the right word—with bright and epigrammatic observations, and it is written throughout with undoubted literary skill."
By VICTORIA CROSSE
THE WOMAN WHO DIDN'T
Crown 8vo. 3s.6d.Third Edition
Speaker:—"The feminine gift of intuition seems to be developed with almost uncanny strength, and what she sees she has the power of flashing upon her readers with wonderful vividness and felicity of phrase…. A strong and subtle study of feminine nature, biting irony, restrained passion, and a style that is both forcible and polished."
By GEORGE EGERTON
KEYNOTES
Crown 8vo. 3s.6d.net Ninth Edition
St. James's Gazette:—"This is a collection of eight of the prettiest short stories that have appeared for many a day. They turn for the most part on feminine traits of character; in fact, the book is a little psychological study of woman under various circumstances. The characters are so admirably drawn, and the scenes and landscapes are described with so much and so rare vividness, that we cannot help being almost spell-bound by their perusal."
Daily News:—"Singularly artistic in its brilliant suggestiveness."
Literary World:—"These lovely sketches are informed by such throbbing feeling, such insight into complex woman, that we with all speed and warmth advise those who are in search of splendid literature to purchase 'Keynotes' without delay."
DISCORDS
Crown 8vo. 3s.6d.net Sixth Edition
Daily Telegraph:—"These masterly word-sketches."
Literary World:—"She has given, times without number, examples of her ripening powers that astonish us. Her themes astound; her audacity is tremendous. In the many great passages an advance is proved that is little short of amazing."
Speaker:—"The book is true to human nature, for the author has genius, and, let us add, has heart. It is representative; it is, in the hackneyed phrase, a human document."
SYMPHONIES
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St. James's Gazette:—"There is plenty of pathos and no little power in the volume before us."
Daily New:—"The impressionistic descriptive passages and the human touches that abound in the book lay hold of the imagination and linger in the memory of the reader."
Daily Telegraph:—"The story entitled 'A Chilian Episode' is actually alive with the warm light and the sensuous climate of the Bay of Valparaiso."
FANTASIAS
Crown 8vo. 3s.6d.net
Daily Chronicle:—"These Fantasias' are pleasant reading—typical scenes or tales upon the poetry and prose of life, prostitution, and the beauty of dreams and truth."
Academy:—"The writing is often extremely clever: the clever, self-conscious writing of one who has read much."
By the Author of "Elizabeth's Children"
THE YOUNG O'BRIENS
Crown 8vo. 6s.
Vanity Fair:—"A delightful book … the majority will say as we do—read it."
HELEN ALLISTON
Crown 8vo. 6s.
Literary World:—"A succession of delighting chapters, ending with one in which the author excels herself."
ELIZABETH'S CHILDREN
Crown 8vo. 6s.Fifth Edition.
Daily Telegraph:—"The book is charming … the author … has a delicate fanciful touch, a charming imagination … skilfully suggests character and moods … is bright and witty, and writes about children with exquisite knowledge and sympathy."
By W. S. JACKSON
HELEN OF TROY, N.Y.
Crown 8vo. 6s.
Daily Chronicle:—"The story is at once original, impossible, artificial, and very amusing. Go, get the work and read."
NINE POINTS OF THE LAW
Crown 8vo. 6s.
Manchester Guardian:—"The kindly humorous philosophy of this most diverting story is as remarkable as its attractive style. There is hardly a page without something quotable, some neat bit of phrasing or apt wording of a truth."
By A. C. FOX-DAVIES
Crown 8vo. 6s.each vol.
THE DANGERVILLE INHERITANCE
Morning Post:—"Mr. Fox-Davies has written a detective story of which Gaboriau might have been proud."
THE MAULEVERER MURDERS
Daily Express:—"A really splendid detective story, … most ingenious, worthy of Gaboriau at his best."
THE FINANCES OF SIR JOHN KYNNERSLEY
By HERBERT FLOWERDEW
A CELIBATE'S WIFE
Crown 8vo. 6s.Second Edition
Speaker:—"Mr. Flowerdew does undoubtedly exhibit a power of graphic and vivid narration."
THE REALIST
Pall Mall Gazette:—"Those who love a story which will hold their attention closely from the first page to the last, need not go further than 'The Realist.'"
By HAROLD FREDERIC
MARCH HARES
Crown 8vo. 3s.6d.net Third Edition
MRS. ALBERT GRUNDY
OBSERVATIONS IN PHILISTIA
Fcap. 8vo. 3s.6d.net Second Edition
By ELIZABETH GODFREY
THE WINDING ROAD
Crown 8vo. 6s.Second Edition
Literary World:—"A carefully written story… Miss Godfrey has the mind of a poet; her pages breathe of the beautiful in nature."
THE BRIDAL OF ANSTACE
Crown 8vo. 6s.
Westminster Gazette:—"An individual charm and a sympathetic application have gone to the conception of Miss Godfrey's book, a remarkable power of characterisation to its making, and a refined literary taste to its composition."
By VALENTINA HAWTREY
PERRONELLE
Crown 8vo. 6s.
Times:—"The story is a passionate one, a thing of lightning flashes of pleasure and pain…. With no display of effort, with no laborious introduction of correct detail, she wraps everything in an atmosphere of old Paris. Here is all the mediæval delight in beautiful things, in craftsmanship; here all the cruelty and brutality, all the passion and stress, and the brave uncertainty of life."
Pall Mall Gazette:—"A piece of exquisite literary work."
By RICHARD GARNETT
THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS and other stories
Crown 8vo. 6s.Second Edition
Daily Chronicle:—"A subtle compound of philosophy and irony. Let the reader take these stories as pure fun—lively incident and droll character—and he will be agreeably surprised to find how stimulating they are."
Times:—"Here is learning in plenty, drawn from all ages and most languages, but of dryness or dulness not a sentence. The book bubbles with laughter…. His sense of humour has a wide range."
By ANNIE E. HOLDSWORTH
A NEW PAOLO AND FRANCESCA
Crown 8vo. 6s.
Bookman:—"Picturesque, intense, and poetical."
By J. HENRY HARRIS
CORNISH SAINTS & SINNERS
With Illustrations by L. RAVEN-HILL.
Crown 8vo. 6s.
THE EARL OF IDDESLEIGH
LUCK O' LASSENDALE
Crown 8vo. 6s.
Mr.A. T. Quiller-Couch, in theDaily News:—"It puzzles me how any man who admires 'Mansfield Park' intelligently can treat 'Luck o' Lassendale' as a thing of no account."
CHARMS
Crown 8vo. 6s.
St. James's Gazette:—"A charming and pathetic tale, absorbing to the end."
By HENRY HARLAND
THE CARDINAL'S SNUFF-BOX
A New Edition, with Title-Page, Cover Design, End Papers, and nearly 100 Drawings byG. C. Wilmshurst.
Crown 8vo. 6s.165th Thousand
Academy:—"The drawings are all excellent in style and really illustrative of the tale."
Times:—"A book among a thousand."
Spectator:—"A charming romance."
Saturday Review:—"Wholly delightful."
Pall Mall Gazette:—"Dainty and delicious."
MY FRIEND PROSPERO
Crown 8vo. 6s.Third Edition
Times:—"There is no denying the charm of the work, the delicacy and fragrancy of the style, the sunny play of the dialogue, the vivacity of the wit, and the graceful flight of the fancy."
World:—"The reading of it is a pleasure rare and unalloyed."
THE LADY PARAMOUNT
Crown 8vo. 6s.Fifty-fifth Thousand
COMEDIES AND ERRORS
Crown 8vo. 6s.Third Edition
Mr.W. L. Courtney, in theDaily Telegraph:—"A kind of younger Pater, emancipated from those cramping academic bonds which occasionally injured Mr. Pater's work. Mr. Harland is younger, freer, with juvenile spirits and a happy keenness and interest in life. He is more of a creator and less of a critic; perhaps some day he will even achieve the same kind of literary distinction as that which adorned his older rival."
Mr.Henry James, inFortnightly Review:—"Mr. Harland has clearly thought out a form…. He has mastered a method and learned how to paint…. His art is all alive with felicities and delicacies."
GREY ROSES
Crown 8vo. 3s.6d.net Fourth Edition
Daily Telegraph:—"'Grey Roses' are entitled to rank among the choicest flowers of the realms of romance."
Spectator:—"Really delightful. 'Castles near Spain' is as near perfection as it could well be."
MADEMOISELLE MISS
Crown 8vo. 3s.6d.Third Edition
Speaker:—"All through the book we are pleased and entertained."
By RICHARD LE GALLIENNE
THE QUEST OF THE GOLDEN GIRL: A Romance
Crown 8vo. 6s.Fifteenth Edition
THE ROMANCE OF ZION CHAPEL
Crown 8vo. 6s.Second Edition
THE BOOK BILLS OF NARCISSUS
Crown 8vo. 3s.6d.net Second Edition
THE WORSHIPPER OF THE IMAGE
Crown 8vo. 3s.6d.net
PAINTED SHADOWS.
Crown 8vo. 6s.Second Edition
By A. E. J. LEGGE
THE FORD
Crown 8vo. 6s.Second Edition
Standard:—"An impressive work … clever and thoughtful. 'The Ford' deserves to be largely read."
Mr.James Douglas, inStar:—"It is full of finely phrased wit and costly satire. It is modern in its handling, and it is admirably written."
MUTINEERS
Crown 8vo. 6s.
Speaker:—"An interesting story related with admirable lucidity and remarkable grasp of character. Mr. Legge writes with polish and grace."
BOTH GREAT AND SMALL
Crown 8vo. 6s.
Saturday Review:—"We read on and on with increasing pleasure."
By WILLIAM J. LOCKE
Crown 8vo. Price 6s.each
THE BELOVÈD VAGABOND
Truth:—"Certainly it is the most brilliant piece of work Mr. Locke has done."
THE MORALS OF MARCUS ORDEYNE
Mr.C. K. Shorter, inSphere:—"A book which has just delighted my heart."
Truth:—"Mr. Locke's new novel is one of the most artistic pieces of work I have met with for many a day."
Mr.L. F. Austin, inDaily Chronicle:—"Mr. Locke succeeds, indeed, in every crisis of this most original story."
Vanity Fair:—"A very striking work."
IDOLS
Daily Telegraph:—"A brilliantly written and eminently readable book."
DERELICTS
Daily Chronicle:—"Mr. Locke tells his story in a very true, very moving, and very noble book. If anyone can read the last chapter with dry eyes we shall be surprised. 'Derelicts' is an impressive and important book."
THE USURPER
World:—"This quite uncommon novel."
WHERE LOVE IS
Standard:—"A brilliant piece of work."
THE WHITE DOVE
Times:—"An interesting story, full of dramatic scenes."
AT THE GATE OF SAMARIA
Crown 8vo. Price 3s.6d.each vol.
A STUDY IN SHADOWS
THE DEMAGOGUE AND LADY PHAYRE
By CHARLES MARRIOTT
THE COLUMN
Crown 8vo. 6s.Thirteenth Thousand
Daily News:—"A notable book … an important book. A novel which brings together strong and subtle power of suggesting character, remarkable humour, and all the best faculties of the writers known to every one."
Mr.W. L. Courtney, inDaily Telegraph:—"Whoever Mr. Charles Marriott may be, he has written a very remarkable novel…. Let us be thankful to Mr. Charles Marriott. He has written a book very fresh, very original, very interesting and suggestive. He has handled situations in the true spirit of an artist. His style is careful. Above all, he thinks for himself."
Truth:—"The promising work of a powerful pen."
LOVE WITH HONOUR
Crown 8vo. 6s.
Mr.W. L. Courtney, inDaily Telegraph:—"Mr. Marriott handles his scenes in the true spirit of an artist. There are chapters in this book which are not only picturesquely written, but intrinsically vivid and strong."
Outlook:—"Mr. Charles Marriott and the public are equally to be congratulated."
THE HOUSE ON THE SANDS
Crown 8vo. 6s.
Daily Telegraph:—"Mr. Marriott's new book has all the qualities of a good novel and many of the qualities of a great one…. It contains some superb character drawing, much subtlety of wit and genuine epigram."
By CONSTANCE E. MAUD
AN ENGLISH GIRL IN PARIS
Crown 8vo. 6s.Fourth Edition
Onlooker:—"'An English Girl in Paris' istout à fait Parisienne. It ischic, it is amusing, and it is artistic."
Westminster Gazette:—"A delightful book—a book which keeps one constantly interested and amused; a book through which there is a constant ripple of humour."
Outlook:—"A charming book; and a piece of literature as well."
By T. BARON RUSSELL
BORLASE AND SON
Crown 8vo. 6s.
Bookman:—"Judged as literature, we know of no novel published this year that is likely to rank higher than 'Borlase and Son.' The people are intensely human; the life it describes is every-day life; its events grip the attention and haunt the memory, as things do that have really happened."
Vanity Fair:—"Demands attention as a very notable book."
Daily Chronicle:—"An author who thoroughly knows what he is writing about…. The details of the life in the Peckham draper's are made interesting to the reader by the sheer force of their realism…. Borlase senior is an admirable piece of character drawing."
St. James's Gazette:—"Mr. Russell has evidently learned his subject from inside, and he has a ready pen as well as the real faculty of making his reader see what he himself has seen."
Morning Leader:—"The real originality of the book lies in the author's remarkable knowledge of, and insight into, the life which he describes, and his power of making his personages live and move."
A GUARDIAN OF THE POOR
Crown 8vo. 6s.
Pall Mall Gazette:—"Mr. Baron Russell has succeeded so admirably, so convincingly, in this difficult task, that I only check the eulogies quivering at the point of my pen for fear they may read like 'gush.'"
Mr.Coulson Kernahan, in theTemple Magazine:—"Haunting, and all the more haunting because pictured with such realism and such art. Mr. Russell is the Zola of Camberwell and Peckham."
THE MANDATE
Crown 8vo. 6s.
Graphic:—"Besides its merits of originality, it has those of a remarkably virile style, and of a capacity for the portrayal of real passion which we trust to meet again."
Bookman:—"Original and striking…. There is unmistakable talent in the book. Mr. Russell should go far."
Outlook:—"A peculiar blending of careful realism with careful sensation. The main characters are well drawn."
Morning Leader:—"'The Mandate' is a novel out of the common, and is stamped with the impress of no little creative power."
By HERMANN SUDERMANN
THE UNDYING PAST
A Translation of "Es War" byBeatrice Marshall
Crown 8vo. 6s.Fifth Thousand
Standard:—"It is practically impossible to have anything but praise for this powerful and virile translation of Sudermann's impressive work…. The book does not even suggest to one that it is a story originally written in another language."
REGINA; or, THE SINS OF THE FATHERS
A Translation of "Der Katzensteg," byBeatrice Marshall
Crown 8vo. 6s.Third Edition
Spectator:—"The author has handled his terrible theme with wonderful force and simplicity."
St. James's Gazette:—"A striking piece of work, full of excitement and strongly-drawn character."
By HENRY SIENKIEWICZ
THE FIELD OF GLORY
Crown 8vo. 6s.Fifth Thousand
Spectator:—"A spirited, picturesque romance … full of adventures, related with all the author's picturesqueness of detail and vigour of outline."
By A. C. THYNNE
SIR BEVILL
Crown 8vo. 6s.
Academy:—"Altogether delightful, setting the reader amid broom and heather on the Devon Moors, or by the sounding sea on the Cornish coast…. All the everyday life is admirably rendered, and many of the side characters are brilliantly sketched."
By FIONA MACLEOD
MOUNTAIN LOVERS
Crown 8vo. 6s.New Edition
By G. S. STREET
THE WISE AND THE WAYWARD
Crown 8vo. 6s.
Academy:—"Mr. Street writes easily, with distinction … he wields a fine swiftly-poised phrase, and has the gift of throwing his characters and situations into strong relief, happily and without tediousness."
Westminster Gazette:—"The cleverness of Mr. Street's analyse is undeniable."
World:—"Distinctly a book to be read."
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A BOY
Fcap. 8vo. 3s.6d.net Fifth Edition
Pall Mall Gazette:—"A creation in which there appears to be no flaw."
Review of Reviews:—"A most brilliant satire."
World:—"A delicate and delightful piece of literature."
THE TRIALS OF THE BANTOCKS
Crown 8vo. 3s.6d.net
Saturday Review:—"Mr. Street has a very delicate gift of satire."
Black and White:—"All very funny, and quite in the best style of Mr. Street's humour."
Times:—"A piece of irony that is full of distinction and wit."
By HUGH DE SÉLINCOURT.
A BOY'S MARRIAGE
Crown 8vo. 6s.Second Edition
Evening Standard:—"Exceedingly realistic … but does not give the impression that anything is expatiated upon for the sake of effect…. A daring but sincere and simple book … likely to attract a great deal of attention."
THE STRONGEST PLUME
Crown 8vo. 6s.
Academy:—"An uncomfortable story for the conventionally minded. It deals a deadly blow to the ordinary accepted notions of the respectable."
By EDITH WHARTON
THE GREATER INCLINATION
Crown 8vo. 6s.New Edition
By HANDASYDE
FOR THE WEEK END
Crown 8vo. 6s.
Standard:—"Only a woman, surely, would write such deep and intimate truth about the heart of another woman and the things that give her joy when a man loves her."
Globe:—"The story is really the narrative of how Blanche and Mortimer Keppel loved each other, and loved honour more…. The dialogue is piquant, wise, entertaining, and full of good things."
By H. B. MARRIOTT WATSON
AT THE FIRST CORNER
Crown 8vo. 3s.6d.net
Saturday Review:—"Admirably conceived and brilliantly finished."
GALLOPING DICK: A Romance
Crown 8vo. 6s.
Daily Telegraph:—"An always attractive theme … a thoroughly effective style."
By M. P. WILLCOCKS
WIDDICOMBE
Crown 8vo. 6s.
Evening Standard:—"A fine … unusual novel … striking studies of women."
THE WINGLESS VICTORY
Crown 8vo. 6s.Third Edition
Times:—"Such books are worth keeping on the shelves even by the classics, for they are painted in colours that do not fade."
Tribune:—"Splendid … a novel to read and to remember."
Glasgow News:—"An enthralling book."
LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD, VIGO ST., W.NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY, 110-114, WEST 32ndST.
Transcriber's Note:Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note.Irregularities and inconsistencies in the text have been retained as printed.
Transcriber's Note:
Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note.
Irregularities and inconsistencies in the text have been retained as printed.