Bibliographical Aids 849 Hart, Guide to the Study of American History (Boston, 1897), includes lists of indexes to public documents (§ i6e) ; general comprehensive works (§20); sources of historical geography (§ 2id) ; biographies (§25); colonial records (§29); works of statesmen (§32); auto- biographies (§33) ; collections of documents (§34); and topical ref- erences from 1492 down to 1S65 (§§ 144-214). W. E. Foster, Re- ferences to the History of Presidential Administj-ations, 1789-1885 (N. Y., 1885), includes diplomatic materials; Bowker and lies, The Readers' Guide in Economic, Social and Political Science {^t-fi XqxV, 1891), col- lects some titles on pages 119-123. See also the section below on Treatises on International Law. The following volumes have lists of books, more or less systematic, either on diplomacy in general (with such classification as makes it easy to select material on America) ; or on American foreign affairs only. ^Charles Calvo, Le Droit International Theorique et Pratique, 6 vols. , (Paris, 1SS7-1896). — Includes an elaborate study of the literature of international law, including sources ; especially Vol. I., 101-138; Vol. VI. (" Supplement General "), xxix-lxi. William I. Fletcher, editor. The "^. L. ^." Index, An Index to General literature (Boston, 1893). — An attempt to index volumes of collected essays and like materials containing specific chapters on special questions. W. I. Fletcher and R. R. Bowker, The Annual literary Index (New York, 1893 — ). — This is a supplement to both Poole and the "^. I. A." Index, in annual volumes (beginning with the year 1892), indexing periodicals, essays, book chapters, etc., in classified entries.
- A. P. C. Griffin, List of Books {imth references to Periodicals') relat-
ing to the Theory of Colonization, Government of Dependencies, Pro- tectorates and related Topics (Library of Congress, Division of Bibliog- raphy, 2ded., Washington, 1900). — Especially serviceable on the latest diplomatic questions. Franz de Holtzendorff and Alphonse Rivier, Introduction au Droit des Gens (Paris, 1889). — Part IV. of this work (pp. 351-494) is a dis- cussion of the literature of international law, by groups, especially : Eng- lish authors (§ 116); American authors (§ 117); Spanish-American and Brazilian authors (§ 119).
- Leonard Augustus Jones, An Index to Legal Periodical Literature,
2 vols., (Boston, 1888, 1899). — Vol. I. indexes a hundred and fifty-eight sets of periodicals down to 1886 ; Vol. II. indexes a few sets before 1887 which were omitted in Vol. I. and then brings down the work to cover 1887-1898, including many articles from general periodicals. The work is indispensable to the searcher for discussions on special topics.
- Josephus Nelson Lamed, editor, The Literature of American History,
A Bibliographical Guide (? 1902). — A classified bibliography of American history in general ; about two thousand titles, each annotated by an expert.
- John Bassett Moore, History and Digest of International Arbitrations
to which the United States has been a Party, 6 vols., (Washington, 1898).
