Transcriber's Notes
H. G. De Walterstorff translation
The following changes have been made to the text as printed.
1. Illustrations and end-of-page footnotes (marked with an asterisk) have been located in appropriate paragraph breaks.
2. Obvious errors in spelling and punctuation have been silently corrected.
3. Where a word is used repeatedly in the same way, spelling and hyphenation have been made consistent, preferring the form most often used in the printed work, or failing that the more usual form in general use at the time of publication. No typographical change has been made within direct quotes from other works.
4. The spelling of the following names has been changed to agree with normal usage at the time of the original publication:
Page 135: "ordinarily a judge at Frankfort-on-Main" to "... Frankfurt-on-Main"
Page 188: "In the Argonne forest much blood has flown" to "... has flowed"
Page 261 (caption) and List of Illustrations: "Bergen-op-Zoon" to "Bergen-op-Zoom"
Page 378 (chapter heading) and Table of Contents: "Trälleborg" to "Trelleborg"
5. Index: some entries have been amended in accordance with the corresponding body text.
6. No change has been made to the following place names, but it is noted that:
Page 211: "Wawre" is a town in central Belgium, indexed as "Woevre", now known as "Wavre"
Page 297: "Wavre" is a village near Antwerp, indexed as such, now known as "Waver"