hey respectively relate.

The present volume has been put together in accordance with this plan;
and my best thanks are due to the proprietors of The Times for
permitting the reissue of the letters in a collected form.
Cross-references and a full Index will, I hope, to some extent remove
the difficulties which might otherwise be caused by the fragmentary
character, and the chances of repetition, inseparable from such a work.

T. E. H.
EGGISHORN, SWITZERLAND,
_September_ 14, 1909.

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PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION

I have again to thank _The Times_ for permission to print in this new
edition letters which have appeared in its columns during the past four
years. They will be found to deal largely with still unsettled questions
suggested by the work of the Second Peace Conference, by the Declaration
of London, and by the, unfortunately conceived, Naval Prize Bill of
1911.

I have no reason to complain of the reception which has so far been
accorded to the views which I have thought it my duty to put forward.

T. E. H.
OXFORD,
_January_ 10, 1914.

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PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION

This, doubtless final, edition of my letters upon War and Neutrality
contains, by renewed kind permission of _The Times_, the whole series of
such letters, covering a period of no less than forty years. To the
letters which have already appeared in former editions, I have now added
those contained in the "Supplement" of 1916 (for some time out of print)
to my second edition; as also others of still more recent date. All
these have been grouped, as were their predecessors, under the various
topics which they were intended to illustrate. The explanatory
commentaries have been carefully brought up to date, and a perhaps
superfluously full Index should facilitate reference for those
interested in matters of the kind. Such persons may not be sorry to have
their attention recalled to many questions which have demanded practical
treatment of late years, more especially during the years of the great
war.

Not a few of these questions are sure again to come to the front, so
soon as the rehabilitation of International Law, rendered necessary by
the conduct of that War, shall be seriously taken in hand.

T. E. H.
OXFORD,
_April_ 25, 1921.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

MEASURES SHORT OF WAR FOR THE SETTLEMENT
OF INTERNATIONAL CONTROVERSIES 1

SECTION