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Several chapters were omitted from the Englishtranslation of which this is a transcription. The reasons for thisare given in the footnotes.
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UNIVERSAL
CLASSICS
LIBRARY
EDITOR'S
AUTOGRAPH EDITION
ATTEST:
Robert Arnot
Managing Editor
UNIVERSAL CLASSICS
LIBRARY
ILLUSTRATED
WITH PHOTOGRAVURES
ON JAPAN VELLUM
HAND PAINTED
REPRODUCTIONS
AND FULL PAGE
PORTRAITS
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AUTHORS
M. WALTER DUNNE
PUBLISHER
NEW YORK AND LONDON
Copyright, 1901,
BY
M. WALTER DUNNE,
PUBLISHER
GENERAL PREFACE
Of the Library of Universal Classics andRare Manuscripts, twenty volumes aredevoted to the various branches of Government,Philosophy, Law, Ethics, English andFrench Belles Lettres, Hebraic, Ottoman,and Arabian Literature, and one to a collectionof 150 reproductions, bound in Englishvellum, of the autographs, papers andletters of Rulers, Statesmen, Poets, Artistsand Celebrities ranging through three centuries,crowned by an illuminated facsimileof that historic Document, the Magna Carta.
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