Transcriber’s Note
Table of Contents added by Transcriber
| Acknowledgements | vi |
| Prologue | 3 |
| Chapter I | 7 |
| Chapter II | 18 |
| Chapter III | 30 |
| Chapter IV | 45 |
| Chapter V | 54 |
| Chapter VI | 62 |
| Chapter VII | 76 |
| Chapter VIII | 88 |
| Chapter IX | 104 |
| Chapter X | 120 |
| Chapter XI | 131 |
| Chapter XII | 144 |
| Chapter XIII | 154 |
| Chapter XIV | 167 |
| Chapter XV | 190 |
| Chapter XVI | 202 |
| Chapter XVII | 216 |
| Chapter XVIII | 233 |
| Chapter XIX | 245 |
| Chapter XX | 264 |
| Chapter XXI | 276 |
| Bibliography | 286 |
| Index | 289 |

by Francis F. Beirne
HASTINGS HOUSE · PUBLISHERS
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