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DEDICATION TO Rear Admiral E. R. G. R. EVANS, C.B., D.S.O. Because the first idea of this story came to me during a delightful visit to your house at Weymouth, and despite the fact that my fictional author has already inscribed a dedication in his Prologue, perhaps you will forgive me for...

PREFACE The late Professor Geldart's book on the Elements of English Law is a striking testimony to the extent of his knowledge of the English legal system, and to his powers of clear, well-proportioned, and accurate exposition. There is no other book in which these Elements are so effectively...

GENGHIS KHAN FOREWORD THE MYSTERY SEVEN hundred years ago a man almost conquered the earth. He made himself master of half the known world, and inspired mankind with a fear that lasted for generations. In the course of his life he was given many names— the Mighty Manslayer, the Scourge of...

CHAPTER I the medieyal inquisition and medieyal spain The fame of the Spanish Inquisition as it was established by Ferdinánd and Isabella towards the elose of the fifteenth century has been sueh that it has tended to blur popular recognition of the fact that the Holy Office was aetive in many...