additions to such a collection necessary, and, in order to render this as complete as possible, a number of earlier schemes have been added. The original intention, as explained in the earlier preface, was simply to collect a few sets of Rules and Projects for International Tribunals, which might form the basis, or furnish suggestions for the creation, of a new set of Rules by the International Law Association. Additions were made, and it was felt that a further extension of the collection of actual examples might be useful, not only in such tasks as both that Body and The Hague Conference were engaged in, but also for the general study and promotion of International Arbitration. This proved to be the case, and the work which resulted had in turn to be embodied. Further research, however, showed that there is existing a mass of material in the literary, political, and diplomatic work done in connection with International Arbitration during the past three hundred years, and that any adequate and useful publication must include a fair representation of these. So the work has grown to its present size. It does not profess to contain all the regulations which are to be found in treaties. and treatises, but it does profess to be fairly comprehensive and complete in its representation as to all phases and facets of Arbitration facts and forms; at any rate to be sufficiently complete for its purpose, namely, that of being an authoritative guide both in the study of the question and in the further application of the practice. Only a small and representative selection of the treaties which have provided for Arbitration, and for Arbitration Procedure, could be included here. Readers will find the extracts referring to Arbitration of most of those which have followed the Jay Treaty of 1794 to the present time reproduced in H. La Fontaine's considerable volume, "Pasicrisie Internationale," which has appeared (in 1902) since our last Edition; for those of the earlier period they are referred to the various Collections of Treaties which have been published. The volume will also serve another and very necessary purpose. It is too often taken for granted, and even urged as an objection, that Arbitration is a very modern method of settling international difficulties, which began with, say, the Alabama Arbitration, or which, at any rate, had its rise a few years previously, in the series of Popular Peace Congresses held in Great Britain and on the Continent, which are still spoken of as the beginning of the movement, and also that its idea is the monopoly of the philanthropic and fanatical few. This book will correct this impression, for it will show that International Arbitration is not a thing of yesterday, that it has had a recognised and even prominent place in the international proceedings of what is emphatically the modern period of History, and that while it had its origin in the far past, it has been practised with increasing frequency, in these latest centuries. The Peace Society, therefore, has not been offering a cunningly devised and untried method of political procedure, when it has advocated International Tribunals as a substitute for the Field-gun and the Ironclad. It is hoped that in this larger form the usefulness of the book will be increased, and that it will come to be considered indispensable by all students and workers in the great cause of International Peace. |