Translator's Foreword

This translation being submitted in manuscript to the author for approval and criticism, he has returned it with a few brief additions and a number of suggestions. All of the former, of course, are embodied in the text; but of many of the latter I could not avail myself. Instead, before sending the translation to press, I have labored carefully to improve it by making numerous verbal changes calculated to secure greater lucidity and a more correct idiom. In its present form, therefore, the translation is technically unlike what the author has returned to me. Under these circumstances, to have adhered to my intention of displaying "Revised by the Author" on the title-page might prove somewhat misleading. This intention was therefore abandoned. Yet, the author's helpful suggestions and friendly encouragement must be freely acknowledged. It is to do this, and at the same time to absolve him from all responsibility for the translation as it now appears in print, that I make this explanation.

D. A. M.