Transcriber’s note
Minor punctuation errors have been changed without notice. Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized.
The table of contents was corrected to match the chapter headers and their page numbers.
Spelling has been retained as originally published except for the corrections below.
| Page [11]: | “the most artistocratic” | “the most aristocratic” |
| Page [16]: | “the Carribean regions” | “the Caribbean regions” |
| Page [18]: | “bitter antagonism existant” | “bitter antagonism existent” |