LONDON:
WILLIAM HEINEMANN
21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.
Some hyphens in words have been silently removed, some added, when a predominant preference was found in the original book.
Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained.
[Pg vii]: The Tynan portrait is at page ‘168’ not ‘228’.
[Pg 265]: There is no section numbered ‘LI’.
[Pg 305]: ‘villanous rivals’ replaced by ‘villainous rivals’.
[Index]: ‘Forrester, Bill’ replaced by ‘Forester, Bill’.