terial upon
which we have had to draw, to resort n
quently to condensation. Parliamentary speeches, s
ers, pamphlets, books of travel, magazine articles,
atises on important phases of our modern life ra
ld their best in the succinct form essential, consi
the space at our disposal. Moreover, with the c
readers we have in view it seemed wise to avoid
ressions and obscure allusions which could ha
to increase the difficulties in the student's path.
e, however, always plainly indicated in the ma
-se cases in which a speech, treaty, constitution
ract from a book or article is "condensed" or "m
densed." While we have struck out sentences
agraphs where there was not space for them,
y could be spared, we have only in the rarest insta
tured to change a word, excepting always in the
translations, which commonly solicit ameliora
her from the standpoint of sense or taste. The
student who suspects that he is missing somet
always, by means of our Table of Contents
t of Citations, readily turn to the text upon w
have relied.