[Footnotes]

[1] August 20, 1914.
[2] September 10, 1914.
[3] Two months later, according to The Times, official evidence of this was actually forthcoming.—A. C. D.
[4] Published, Fortnightly Review, February 1913.
[5] More now, alas! than ever.—Nov. 26, A. C. D.
[6] This, of course, would presuppose that Holland was involved in the war.—A. C. D.

[Transcriber’s Notes:]

Variable spelling has been retained for:
after-thoughts and afterthoughts
coast-line and coastline

Book was written in a period when many words had not become standardized in their spelling. Numerous words have multiple spelling variations in the text. These have been left unchanged unless noted below:

p 29 — added missing [the] (in the future).
p 75 — at corrected to [as] (he exclaimed, as he gazed).
p 86 — added missing [the] (in the future).
p 111 — added missing [the] (in the future).