SOMETIME CHICHELE PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
MEMBRE (PRÉSIDENT 1913) DE L'INSTITUT DE DROIT INTERNATIONAL
ETC., ETC.

THIRD EDITION

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
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BOMBAY, CALCUTTA, AND MADRAS

1921




PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION

For a good many years past I have been allowed to comment, in letters to
_The Times_, upon points of International Law, as they have been raised
by the events of the day. These letters have been fortunate enough to
attract some attention, both at home and abroad, and requests have
frequently reached me that they should be rendered more easily
accessible than they can be in the files of the newspaper in which they
originally appeared.

I have, accordingly, thought that it might be worth while to select,
from a greater number, such of my letters as bear upon those questions
of War and Neutrality of which so much has been heard in recent years,