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 850 Bibliography 0/ American Diplomacy — List of authorities, I. Ixxxiii-xcviii ; list of cases, I. Ixiii-lxxxvii ; the footnotes throughout are a most valuable guide to materials, and espe- cially to official correspondence. Fook's Index to Periodical Literature, 1802-1881, 2 vols., rev. ed. (Bos- ton, 1893). First Supplement, 1882-1886 (Boston, 1888); Sec otid Sup- plement, i88j-i8gi (Boston, 1893 ) ; Third Supplement, i8g2-i86 (Bos- ton, 1897). — A well known and invaluable series of guides to the numer- ous valuable articles, often by experts, in periodicals. States of America and other Powers (Washington, 1889). — To this vol- ume Mr. J. C. Bancroft Davis has appended (pp. 1217-1406) very valu- able historical notes, with detailed references to government publications and some other sources. States, 3 vols., (Washington, 1886). — The references in this work are practically a classified bibliography of official source-material. See es- pecially Vol. I., pp. iii-ix, " Preliminary remarks. " (Boston, 1886-1889). Includes a critical discussion of authorities down to about 1850 (Vn. 461-562) ; an account of the manuscript sources of American history, including archives (VIII. 413-468) ; and an appendix on comprehensive printed authorities (VIII. 469-507). III. SECONDARY WORKS. In every field of diplomacy the ground has been to some degree gone over by text-writers in international law, and by general historians ; of late years a literature of special treatises and monographs has sprung up. Out of all these discussions a choice has been made in the list below of those which have most reference to American conditions and experience, which have the most useful footnotes and bibliographies, and which, from the character of their authors or from their freshness and originality, seem likely to be most to the point. Many of the secondary books also con- tain source-materials, in appendices or extracts. A. General ]Vorks on American Diplomacy. There is no one work covering the whole field of American diplo- macy, both the colonial and federal periods. The following books in- clude parts of the subject and are useful for a general survey. None of them is provided with elaborate footnotes. William Eleroy Curtis, The United States and Foreign Powers (New York, 1899). — This is a little book which includes a sketch of the diplo- matic service ; chapters on Latin-American relations, the Monroe Doc- trine and the interoceanic canal ; and then a study of the relations of the United States with the various foreign powers in succession. It is not a consecutive work, nor marked by deep knowledge of international law.
 * William Frederick Poole, William I. Fletcher and others, editors,
 * United States, Treaties and Conventions concluded between the United
 * Francis Wharton, Digest of the International Law of the United
 * Justin AVinsor, Narrative and Critical History of America, 8 vols.,