PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION A new edition of this work having been called for shortly after the death of its distinguished author last year, it has fallen to the task of the writer to supplement the original text and notes sufficiently to place the work abreast of the numerous additions to the literature of the subject brought forth by the events of the past eight years. A list of cases cited has been added after the table of contents. Changes in the text itself have naturally been slight; it has, however, been thought wise to rewrite parts of Chapter I. and Chapter II. To Chapter VI. on Private International Law there has been added a portion of the opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States in the leading case of Hilton vs. Guyot, as the best existing exposition of certain aspects of the subject. In Appendix H will be found the extradition treaty between the United States and the Dominican Republic, proclaimed August 26, 1910. Additions have also been made to the appendices through the incorporation, by kind permission of Prof. James Brown Scott on the part of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, of its valuable and carefully prepared presentation of signatures, ratifications, adhesions, and reservations of the conventions and declarations of the First and Second Hague Conferences published last year. As Appendix J there is printed, by the kind permission of Prof. Charles H. Levermore on the part of the World Peace Foundation of Boston, and of Prof. George Grafton Wilson, of Harvard University, who translated the Declaration of London from the original French, the valu able edition of the Declaration with notes as given in the Foundation's edition of June, 1915. At page 248 the text has been modified to permit the insertion of additional definitions of terms used in diplomacy, and under the term Concordat a brief notice of the international aspects of the Papacy has been inserted. Appendix H has been slightly lengthened to permit brief notices, not available for the space allowed to the text, on transfer to a neutral flag, merchant vessels armed for defense, aircraft, and wireless telegraphy; and there is added the English text of the convention between the United States and the states of Latin America ratified by the United States January 16, 1909, touching the status of naturalized citizens. The List of Authorities originally prefixed to the work has been left intact in order that it may correspond with the paging of the author's numerous reference notes, but at the conclusion of the author's list has been added a brief enumeration of some recent works. Two former appendices have been omitted for the reason that the subject of which they treat-the law of war on land is comprised in the Hague conventions here reproduced in full. It is hoped that the volume will prove a useful introduction to the study of international law in its modern aspects. 24 Hendrie Hall, Yale University, March, 1916. G. E. S. |