TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

  1. P. [50], changed “Tirah Expedition in 1988” to “Tirah Expedition in 1898”.
  2. P. [517], changed “out Light Cruiser Squadron” to “our Light Cruiser Squadron”.
  3. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling.
  4. Retained anachronistic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed.
  5. Footnotes have been re-indexed using numbers and collected together at the end of the last chapter.
  6. P. [24], changed “The result of the polls in January, 1906, was a Conservative landslide” to “The result of the polls in January, 1906, was a Liberal landslide”.