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These quotations have been made, both from the article and the 

 address of Mr. ROOT because they justify of themselves the recommen- 

 dations made by the Congress in regard to international law. The rec- 

 ommendations are twofold: First, to broaden and deepen instruction in 

 international law in American seats of learning; and second, to reach 

 the peoples of the American Continent, impressing them with their duties 

 in matters international and instructing them in their international rights. 



The four headings of Article 23, numbered respectively (a), (6), (c), and 

 (d), are meant to furnish teacher and student with necessary information 

 concerning the books and treatises dealing with international law; to 

 supply the references to standard sources of authority on the different 

 headings of international law; to secure the official documents, both 

 foreign and domestic, issued by the various Governments bearing upon 

 international law, relating to treaties, arbitrations, and the international 

 policy of the different governments ; and to place at the disposal of teacher 

 and student decisions of national and of international courts involving 

 questions of international law. Experience shows that it is difficult to 

 keep abreast of treatises and monographs dealing with international law, 

 issued from time to time in different countries and in various languages, 

 and that it is no easy matter to obtain these books and monographs 

 unless the prospective purchaser has relations with the libraries or pub- 

 lishers of the different foreign countries in which they appear. The 

 Congress felt that the publication of a carefully prepared bibliography of 

 international law and related subjects, giving the names of publishers and 

 prices, would tend greatly to popularize international law and bring the 

 items contained in the bibliography not only to the notice of the libraries 

 where the books in question were not to be found, but also exert 

 indirect but substantial pressure upon these libraries to procure the pub- 

 lications for the benefit of their readers. 



It often happens that the reader of a newspaper becomes interested 

 in the subject of which he is reading and would like to obtain additional 

 information if he had at hand a ready-reference manual. This is par- 

 ticularly the case at the present day, when questions of international 

 law are uppermost in the minds and thoughts of men and when they 

 occupy such a prominent place in the daily press. A manual or treatise 

 of international law is not always at hand, and in the changing conditions 

 of international life and experience many topics which we-re unknown a 

 decade ago and which are unmentioned in recent works of authority are of 

 the utmost importance at the present day. An index or digest, brought 

 up-to-date and kept up-to-date of the various heads and subheads in 



