But while the new matter which has been incorporated has added considerably to the length of the work the additions to the bibliography, text, and notes amounting to nearly a quarter of the former work this second edition is not less convenient in size than its predecessor. By rearranging the matter on the page, using a line extra on each, and a greater number of words on a line, by setting the bibliography and notes in smaller type, and by omitting the A ppendix, it has been found possible to print the text of this new edition on 626 pages, as compared with 594 pages of the first edition. The system being elastic it was possible to place most of the additional matter within the same sections and under the same headings as before. Some of the points treated are, however, so entirely new that it was necessary to deal with them under separate headings, and within separate sections. The reader will easily distinguish them, since, to avoid disturbing the arrangement of topics, these new sections have been inserted between the old ones, and numbered as the sections preceding them, but with the addition of the letters a, b, c.
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International Law, a Treatise, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)
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Author(s)L. Oppenheim
PublisherForgotten Books
ISBN / ASIN1440086117
ISBN-139781440086113
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