Price 10s. 6d. net (_Post Free Price 10s. 10d._) “It has indeed been long recognised as a standard work upon the subject of which it treats, and an excellent example of orderly method and skilful condensation.”--_Daily News._ “Is not likely to lose the position it has held for so many years as the best published.”--_Continental Traveller._ PUBLISHED BY ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK, SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W. * * * * * * Transcriber’s note: * Obvious printer errors have been silently corrected. * Original spelling has been kept, but variant spellings have been made consistent when a predominant usage was found. Spanish spellings have been kept unchanged. * Footnotes have been renumbered into a single series. Each footnote is placed at the end of the paragraph which includes its anchor. * Sidenotes have been slightly moved to better match the text. * Inconsistencies between the main text and the Table of Contents have been eliminated.