JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD, VIGO STREET, LONDON, W.
Transcriber’s Notes:
The spelling, hyphenation, punctuation and accentuation are as the original, except for apparent typographical errors which have been corrected.
In Chapter VII the titles of John Oliver Hobbe’s books have been amended thus:
The Gods, Some Mortals and Mr. Wickenham
Amended to read,
The Gods, Some Mortals and Lord Wickenham
The Dream the Business
Amended to read,
The Dream and the Business
The date given for the quotation from Punch in Chapter XXIV is given as 1960 in the original and has been amended to read:
“(From ‘The Times’ of December 20, 1906.)