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Transcriber's note:
Due to an accusation of libel, some pages had to be rewritten
and reprinted before the book was bound. Pages 1-24 were not
printed and are missing from the original. See the
Preface for more information.
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(_italics_).
Text in a Gothic font in the original are surrounded by equal
signs (=Gothic=).
Characters superscripted in the original are surrounded by
curly braces (example: SAM{L}).
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in a poetry quotation. Other asterisks indicate censored names.
The original uses two kinds of blockquotes--one type has words
in a smaller font, and the other uses extra white space before
and after the quotation. The transcriber has used wider margins
to represent the smaller font and two blank lines before and
after to represent extra white space.
Variations in spelling and hyphenation have been left as in the
original. A few typographical errors have been corrected. A
complete list follows the text.
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