Transcriber's Notes:
Footnotes in the original text were marked at the page level, beginning at Footnote #1 each time footnotes appeared on a page. Footnote numbers for the whole text have been replaced with sequential footnote numbers, from 1 to 40.
Spellings of reelect-, coordinat-, and cooperat- in this transcription have been normalized for consistency to reëlect-, coördinat-, coöperat-.
Page 426: A closing qutotation, absent in the original publication, has been supplied at the end of the following: "the facility and little truth with which he could represent facts and occurrences, concerning persons who were the objects of his hatred"