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This e-book contains one phrase in ancient Greek, which may not displayproperly depending on the fonts the user has installed. Hover the mouse overthe Greek phrase to view a transliteration, e.g.,λογος.

Blank pages have been removed from the text. Some page numbers are missingas a result.

Inconsistencies in the author's use of hyphens and accent marks havebeen left unchanged, as in the original text. Obvious typographicalerrors have been corrected without comment. One example of a typographicalerror is on page 144 where the word "miuutes" was corrected to"minutes". In cases other than obvious typographical errors, the author'sspelling has been left unchanged from the original text with the followingthree exceptions:

1. Page 126 the word "worldings" was changed to "worldlings" in the phrase:"... guests are all mere worldlings...."

2. Page 262 the quoted phrase: "Fait vour quelle sera votre votre maturité"was changed to: "Fait voir quelle sera votre maturité" which is the correctwording from the poem "À Théodore de Banville" by Charles Baudelaire.

3. Page 317 the name "Bazil" was changed to "Basil" in the phrase:"Basil Hallward's studio" to correspond with the author's other spellingsof the name Basil Hallward.

Two items in the index, which were out of alphabetical order ("DeProfundis—Biblical influence" and "Shaw, G. B.") were placed in correctalphabetical order in this version.