“From the standpoint of a layman, I must confess that the book seems to me too much elaborated in many places.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
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“Dr. Foster’s argument is close and learned; not easy to read, but to be studied and pondered over.”
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“Both in source and substance this is a significant book, though opening no line of thought quite new.”
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Foster, John Watson. Practice of diplomacy. **$3. Houghton.
The audience reached in this work is mainly that made up of men in the diplomatic service of the nation, and the author discusses in an informing manner the utility of the diplomatic service, the duties of diplomats and their rank qualifications, the consular service, the negotiation and framing of treaties, arbitration and international claims.