has won the gratitude of his people and the affection of the friends throughout Europe he has made for his people. If the example he has so brilliantly and successfully set, becomes as widespread as now seems probable, the future may not be really as thick with gloomy prospects as it at present looks.

I have to thank different Foreign Offices and other Government Departments for much courtesy and assistance in communicating to me information and documents which have not been made public, and many of my colleagues of the Institute of International Law, and others, including Sir J. Brunner, to whom I have dedicated the book, for thoughtful and useful criticism. I may mention General Den Beer Portugael (Holland), Mr. Richard Kleen (Sweden), Mr. Gram (Norway), Sir Walter Phillimore, President-Justice Sieveking (Hamburg), Professors Lammasch (Vienna), Stoerk (Germany), J. Bassett Moore (U.S.A.), Fauchille (France), Westlake, K.C., Wilhelm Kauffmann (Germany), Strisower (Austria), Judge Simeon E. Baldwin (U.S.A.), Errera (Belgium), C. Chesney Hyde (U.S.A.), and Streit (Greece), M. Duplessix (France), Senator Rafael de Labra (Spain), Senator R. F. Seijas (Venezuela). As several of my correspondents have been appointed delegates to the second Hague Conference, and others have asked me to treat their communications as confidential, I have suppressed some names, and not ventured to attach any to the useful comments I have quoted. It is right, to prevent misunderstanding, that I should add that, though I have gratefully mentioned names, it must not be supposed that views of any my eminent correspondents are in any way reflected in mine.

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