THE FOLLOWING IS A LIST OF 



THE PRINCIPAL AUTHORITIES CONSULTED IN 



THE PREPARATION OF THIS WORK. 



The Political Writings of Richard Cobden. 2 vols. {1867.) 



An Historical Review of the European Nations. Christopher W. Koch. (1823.) 



The History of Poland, &c. James Fletcher. • (1831.) 



History of the Secretaryships of the Earl of Aberdeen and Viscount Palmerston. 



Thomas Macknight. (1855.) 

 The Life of Viscount Palmerston (1846-1865). Hon. Evelyn Ashley. (1876.) 

 The Annual Register. (1854 to 1891.) 

 Revue des Deux Mondes. (1866 to 1891.) 



Regeneration of Eastern Europe, &c. Vladimir Yovanovitch. (1871.) 

 Russia : Europe and the East. By a Foreigner. (1884.) 

 Parliamentary Papers on Newfoundland, Egypt, Suez Canal, France, Germany, 



Russia, Turkey, &c., &c. (1852 to 1891). 

 The Great Canal of Suez, &c. P. Fit_zgerald. (1876.) 

 Ferdinand de Lesseps' Recollections of Forty Years. (1887.) 

 Servia and the Servians. William Denton. (1862.) 

 A History of Our Own Times, from the Accession of Queen Victoria to the Berlin 



Congress. Justin McCarthy, M. P. (1879.) 

 French Treaty Rights in Newfoundland. J. S. Winter, K.CjM.G., &c. (1890.) 

 A Treatise on Maritime Law. Robert Ward. (1873.) 

 Maritime Warfare. Thomas Gibson Bowles. (1878.) 

 Maritime Rights. The Hon. Charles Sumner. (1862.) 

 A Manual of International Law. Jan Helenus Fergusson. 2 vols. (1884.) 

 International Reform. Frederic Seebohm. (1871.) 

 Essays on Modern International Law. T. J. Lawrence, M.A. (1884.) 

 Almanach de Gotha. Justus Perthes. (189 1.) • 

 The Statesman's Year Book. J. Scott Keltie. (1891.) 

 Hertslet's Commercial Treaties. (Latest Vol. 1887.) 

 Hertslet's British and Foreign State Papers. (1814-1884.) 

 Hertslet's Map of Europe by Treaty. (1814-1891.) 

 History of the Law of Nations. Henry Wheaton, LL.D. (1845.) 

 International Law. Henry Sumner Maine, K.C.S. I. (1889.) 

 Institute of the Law of Nations. James Lorimer, LL.D. (1884.) 



THE AUTHOR'S ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



ARE ALSO DUE TO THE LEAI&NG OSGANS OF THE 7KESS, ESPECIALLY TO THE 



TIMES, STANDARD, MORNING POST, 



FOR NUMEROUS SPECIAL ARTICLES ON VARIOUS QUESTIONS OF FOREIGN POLITICS, AND TO 

 THE FOLLOWING GENTLEMEN FOR THEIR INVALUABLE ASSISTANCE ; — 



SIR EDWARD HERTSLET, C.B. | G. DE. WINTON, F.S.A., ChevS, &c. 

 W. M. BROOKES, Esq., Bradford. 



