Transcriber's Notes
There was an illustration of the author as the frontispiece, but it was scanned too poorly to include here. The caption reads "Martin F. Tupper. Elliott & Fry, Photographers."
[Page 44]: added closing parenthesis after "contempt]!"
[Page 296]: added closing parenthesis after "patriotic but peculiar"
[Page 297]: removed opening parenthesis after "Rifledom—were once to a comma"