BY GEORGE GRAFTON WILSON, PH.D. PROFESSOR IN BROWN UNIVERSITY AND GEORGE FOX TUCKER, PH.D. LATELY REPORTER OF DECISIONS OF THE SUPREME JUDICIAL FIFTH EDITION SILVER, BURDETT AND COMPANY NEW YORK BOSTON CHICAGO PREF JE TO THE FIFTH EDITION THE thors have in this new edition introduced changes decessary by the development of international relations. wars of recent years and the results of the Conferences. The Hague and of other international conferences have "reatly modified international law as understood toward the end of the nineteenth century. Principles then commonly recognized are now formulated in international agreements, and new principles have been brought forward and have received general assent. It may not be too much to say that the development of international law within the period since the call for the First Peace Conference at The Hague in 1898 has been greater than that during the two hundred and fifty years preceding, from the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 to the call for the Hague Conference in 1898. These significant changes have been regarded in this edition and have made necessary an entire rewriting of many sections of the book. Certain rules, codes, and conventions printed in the appendices of earlier editions have become in large measure obsolete and have been omitted. Many of the recent international agreements appear in the appendices. In certain cases where such agreements relate to a single subject the essential articles appear in the appropriate section of the text, and may be found by reference to the index. The authors would again express their appreciation of the reception which the earlier editions have received. DECEMBER, 1909. G. G. W. G. F. T. |