Transcriber's Notes:
1. Page scan source:
http://www.archive.org/details/forsceptreandcr01samagoog
2. Gregor Samarow is pseudonym of Johann Ferdinand Martin Oskar Meding.
3. Translator of this work is Fanny Wormald. This is per an advertisement for this book given on page xii. in "The Academy and literature, Volume 10," December 16, 1876.