Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: i chapter{Section 4PEEFACE Although this treatise on the Law of Nations appears in two volumes, it is intended to be an elementary book for those who are beginning to study International Law. It is a book for students written by a teacher. The majority of the people in this country who take an interest in International Law are not jurists and have no legal training, as my classes at the London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London) show. For this reason, in lectures as well as in a treatise on the Law of Nations, certain truisms must be repeated again and again, and much that is obvious to the trained jurist must, to insure comprehension, be pointed out at some length. My work endeavours to give a complete survey of the subject. All important points are discussed, and in notes the reader is referred to other books which go more deeply into the subject. And the list of treatises as well as monographs printed at the commencement of each topic will, I hope, be welcome to those who desire to look up a particular point. There is no English treatise which provides such a bibliography. Naturally, my catalogue is not exhaustive, although English, French,German, Italian, Kussian, Swiss, Belgian, Portuguese, American, and Spanish-American authors are represented. And as a rule I have avoided giving references to articles contained in periodicals. But my readers will find these as well as other references in the books quoted. In any case they will know where to find something on any subject in which they take a special interest. That I have everywhere quoted Phillimore, Twiss, and Hall, and have as regards the detail of many points referred my readers to these classics of international jurisprudence, was a matter of course. I should, however, specially ment...