merely from books. One of the earliest works of this kind is that commonly called Le Parfait Ambassadeur, originally published in Spanish by Don Antonio de Vera, long time ambassador of Spain at Venice, who died in 1658. It was subsequently published by the author in Latin, and different translations ap peared in Italian and French. Wicquefort's book, published in 1679, under the title of L'Ambassadeur et ses Fonctions, although its principal object is to treat of the rights of legation, contains much valuable information upon the art of negotiation. Callieres, one of the French plenipotentiaries at the Treaty of Ryswick, published, in 1716, a work entitled De la Manière de Negocier avec les Souverains, which obtained considerable reputation. The Abbé Mably also attempted to treat this subject systematically, in an essay entitled Principes des Negotiations, which is commonly prefixed as an introduction to his Droit Publique de l'Europe, in the various editions of the works of that author. A catalogue of the different histories which have appeared of particular negotiations would be almost interminable, but nearly all that is valuable in them will be found collected in the excellent work of M. Flassan, entitled L'Histoire de la Diplomatie Française. The late Count de Ségur's compilation from the papers of Favier, one of the principal secret agents employed in the double diplomacy of Louis XV., entitled Politique de tous les Cabinets de l'Europe pendant les Règnes de Louis XV. et de Louis XVI., with the notes of the able and experienced editor, is a work which also throws great light upon the history of French diplomacy. A history of treaties, from the earliest times to the Emperor Charlemagne, collected from the ancient Latin and Greek authors, and from other monuments of antiquity, was published by Barbeyrac, in 1739.1 It had been preceded by the immense collection of Dumont, embracing all the public treaties of Europe, from the age of Charlemagne to the commencement of the eighteenth century. The best collections of the more modern European treaties are those published at different periods Histoire des Anciens Traités, par Barbeyrac, forming the 5th vol. of Dumont's Supplement au Corps Diplomatique. 2 Corps Universel Diplomatique du Droit des Gens, &c., 8 tomes fol. Amsterd. 1726-1731. Supplement au Corps Universel Diplomatique, 5 tomes fol. 1739. by Professor Martens, of Göttingen, including the most important public acts upon which the present conventional law of Europe is founded. To these may be added Koch's Histoire abregée des Traités de Paix depuis la Paix de Westphalie, continued by Schöell. A complete collection of the proceedings of the Congress of Vienna has also been published in German, by Klüber.1 1 Acten des Wiener Congresses in den Jahren, 1814 und 1815; von J. L. Klüber. Erlangen, 1815 und 1816: 6 Bde. 8vo. |