Treatise on international law

THE three years which have elapsed since the publica tion of the first edition of the following work are too short a time for any material change or addition in a second issue to be rendered necessary by modifications of international practice or doctrine. Some few additions have nevertheless been made. A writer must be very easily satisfied with his handiwork if he can look over what he has written without finding that something has been left unsaid, and that much could be better said. To have surrendered myself to this feeling might have led to great alterations, and perhaps to no better results. From these possibilities I have shrunk; but I have tried to improve, where I could, in a smaller way. Some new points are discussed, some old ones are more fully treated, some additional illustra tions are given. The fresh matter thus brought into the volume, which was already sufficiently cumbrous, fills nearly forty pages.