TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
Reading edition
P. 50, changed “Tirah Expedition in 1988” to “Tirah Expedition in 1898”.
P. 517, changed “out Light Cruiser Squadron” to “our Light Cruiser Squadron”.
Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling.
Retained anachronistic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed.
Footnotes have been re-indexed using numbers and collected together at the end of the last chapter.
P. 24, changed “The result of the polls in January, 1906, was a Conservative landslide” to “The result of the polls in January, 1906, was a Liberal landslide”.