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masterly translation of the treatise, which forms a separate volume. The 

 two volumes are expected to appear not later than December 1912. 



Several other works are well under way. Rachel's dissertations, published 

 in 1676, and entitled De jure naturae et gentium, and Textor's Synopsis juris 

 gentium, published in 1680, for each of which works Professor von Bar, of 

 the University of Gottingen, has written an introduction, are being translated 

 by Mr. Bate. 



The text of the celebrated treatise of Vattel, published in 1758, in two vol- 

 umes, and entitled Le droit des gens, has been photographed, and the trans- 

 lation is nearly complete. The introduction will be supplied by Professor 

 de Lapradelle, of the University of Paris. 



Immediately after finishing his work on Zouche, Professor Holland ac- 

 cepted the task of preparing an edition of Legnano's tractate (written in 

 1360, first printed in 1477), entitled De bello, de represaliis et de duello. A 

 beautiful manuscript of the work will be reproduced photographically, as 

 well as the text of 1477, but the translation will be made of the original work 

 without the passages not found in the original, but which were introduced 

 into the edition of 1477. Professor Holland will also see through the press 

 a revised Latin text which will accompany the manuscript and the first print. 

 It was hoped that the text of Grotius's masterpiece, entitled De jure Belli 

 ac Pacis libri III, first published in 1625, would be issued with an intro- 

 duction and a translation before the meeting of the Trustees in December 

 1912- The photographic reproduction of the original text could be issued, 

 but it seems best that the Latin text and the English translation appear at 

 the same time, although they constitute separate volumes. The translation 

 is being made by Prof. John D. Maguire, of the Catholic University of 

 America, and is nearly complete. There are three works of Grotius to be 

 produced. The first, entitled De jure praedae, although written in 1604, was 

 first published in 1868 from the original manuscript then recently discovered. 

 This manuscript is in the library of the University of Leyden, and the 

 librarian has allowed it to be photographed for reproduction in the series. 

 This very important work, which was a professional opinion rendered by 

 Grotius on a case presented to him when at the bar, is the basis of the master- 

 piece of 1625, which contains as its Chapter XII the Mare liberum, which 

 was issued in separate form in 1609. The tractate De jure praedae will be 

 translated by Doctor Maguire as soon as he completes his translation of the 

 De jure Belli ac Pacis. In view of the importance which Grotius occupies, 

 either as founder or as first systematic expounder of the science of inter-* 

 national law, and in view also of the relation which exists between the first 

 work of 1604 an d the larger and more authoritative work of 1625, it appears 

 best to withhold the introduction and publish it as a separate volume after 

 the three works in question have been issued. Another reason why it is 

 deemed inadvisable to prefix an introduction to the larger work of Grotius 

 is that the volume, as reproduced, is already so large that an adequate intro- 

 duction would make it unwieldy. 



