Copyright, 1906 and 1920, by
FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
[Printed in the United States of America]
Copyright Under the Articles of the Copyright Convention
of the Pan-American Republics and the United States,
August 11, 1910
Published January 1, 1920
All Rights Reserved
[PREFACE]
The fact that this little book has passed through many editions, and now enters on a new one in revised form, is ample answer to its writer’s prayer when, with the aid of his Publishers, he launched it on an uncertain voyage over the seas of time—
“Go, little book, God send thee good passage,
And specially let this be thy prayer: