Dedication

To
Arthur Krock,
who intercepted this chronicle as it drifted toward the archives of some historical society and who is not afraid to share with his grateful, admiring friend the brickbats its publication may provoke

But no man who is correctly informed as to the past, will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.

Macaulay: History of England, Vol. I, Chap. i.