Excerpt from International Law: As Interpreted During the Russo-Japanese War The kindness with which the public received the first edition Of this work has rendered a second edition necessary within a period which, having regard to the nature of the book, must be pronounced short. We were at first in hopes that this circumstance would have enabled us to recast the whole work, in order to attenuate, so far as might be, the journalistic element which was inevitably conspicuous in a book which appeared almost the day peace was signed. It was, however, found that this Object could not be attained without rewriting and rearranging the work - a'task which for many reasons it was not possible for us to undertake. We have therefore con tented ourselves with large omissions when the matter contained in the first edition seemed merely Of temporary interest, with some not unimportant additions, and with very many cor rections, which the suggestiveness of critics, or our own Observations, have enabled us to make. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.