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WHEWELL PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL LAW IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
HONORARY MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF JURISPRUDENCE AT MADRID
TO EDWARD ARTHUR WHITTUCK WHOSE SYMPATHY AND ENCOURAGEMENT HAVE ACCOMPANIED THE PROGRESS OF THIS WORK FROM ITS INCEPTION TO ITS CLOSE
The course of events since 1905, when this work first made its appearance, and the results of further research have necessitated not only the thorough revision of the former text and the rewriting of some of its parts, but also the discussion of a number of new topics. But while the new matter which has been incorporated has added considerably to the length of the work--the additions to the bibliography, text, and notes amounting to nearly a quarter of the former work--this second edition is not less convenient in size than its predecessor. By rearranging the matter on the page, using a line extra on each, and a greater number of words on a line, by setting the bibliography and notes in smaller type, and by omitting the Appendix, it has been found possible to print the text of this new edition on 626 pages, as compared with 594 pages of the first edition.
The system being elastic it was possible to place most of the additional matter within the same sections and under the same headings as before. Some of the points treated are, however, so entirely new that it was necessary to deal with them under separate headings, and within separate sections. The reader will easily distinguish them, since, to avoid disturbing the arrangement of topics, these new sections have been inserted between the old ones, and numbered as the sections preceding them, but with the addition of the letters _a_, _b_, &c. The more important of these new sections are the following: § 178_a_ (concerning the Utilisation of the Flow of Rivers); §§ 287_a_ and 287_b_ (concerning Wireless Telegraphy on the Open Sea); §§ 287_c_ and 287_d_ (concerning Mines and Tunnels in the Subsoil of the Sea bed); § 446_a_ (concerning the Casa Blanca incident); §§ 476_a_ and 476_b_ (concerning the International Prize Court and the suggested International Court of Justice); §§ 568_a_ and 568_b_ (concerning the Conventions of the Second Hague Peace Conference, and the Declaration of London); § 576_a_ (concerning Pseudo-Guarantees). Only towards the end of the volume has this mode of dealing with the new topics been departed from. As the chapter treating of Unions, the last of the volume, had to be entirely rearranged and rewritten, and a new chapter on Commercial Treaties inserted, the old arrangement comes to an end with § 577; and §§ 578 to 596 of this new edition present an arrangement of topics which differs from that of the former edition.