Wheaton's Law of Nations. Vattel's Law of Nations. Story on the Conflict of Laws. | Kent's Commentaries, 1st vol. Note.-Finding it impossible to transfer the whole of Professor Greenleaf's valuable course to these pages, the compiler has availed himself of the aid of a professional friend in digesting from it an abridgment, and it is proper to add that the abridgment has been made principally from the first edition. lished. A new and amended edition has just been pub PRINCIPLES. THE following principles have been kept in view in selecting the writers noticed in this part. 1. To group them together according to the usual method, and without any attempt at refinement in classification. 2. To arrange the groups according to the chronological order in which different branches of literature were developed. Hence Poetry is placed first, Philosophy next, then History, and so on. A different order was proper in the third part. 3. Generally to assign each author to the time of his birth rather than to the more doubtful one at which he wrote. 4. To select those who have exerted the greatest influence on the progress of the human mind, but without attempting a complete enumeration, especially of those in recent times. 5. To omit, generally, those whose writings are not now extant, at least in part. 6. To make the enumeration more complete in the departments of Literature, History, and Philosophy, than in those of Physical Science, Politics, and Theology. 7. To omit, for the most part, all living writers. To those who are engaged in collecting original works, the compiler would respectfully suggest (if their means allow) the expediency, 1. Of endeavouring to make some one department or subdivision of a department complete in the best works, best editions, &c. 2. Of ultimately depositing such department in some public library, where it can be made extensively useful to scholars. 3. Of binding up and depositing, from time to time, in some public library, copies of |