Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.

Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.

Page xii: The page number for “Treatment of Wounded and Sick Soldiers” was misprinted as “87”. The chapter actually begins on page 115 and that number has been used in this eBook.

The “Contents of Editor’s Marginal Summary” includes an entry for “War Treaties,” but there is no corresponding Sidenote. It also includes an entry for “Duties of the neutral—belligerents must be warned off”, but this actually refers to two separate Sidenotes.

Page 114: Opening quotation mark before “The ugly and inherently” has no matching closing mark.

Page 116: “do no more harm” was misprinted as “do more harm”.

Page 135: “Etiam hosti fides servanda” was misprinted as “Etiam Zosti fides servanda”.

Footnote 23, originally footnote 6 on page 21: “an infinitely more honest one” was misprinted as “an infinitely more honest me”.

Some misprinted German words have been corrected: “Uebermut” was “Uebernut”, “JahrbÜcher” was “JahrÜcher”, “zur Landes-” was “zur Lander”, “weichlicher” was “weicheler”, “Weltpolitik” was “Welt politik”, “das unsterbliche” was “dasunsterbliche”, “Fortwirken” was “Fortwirkung”, “GefÜhlsschwÄrmerei” was “GefÜhlschwarmerei”, “Kriegsmittel” was “Kriegs mittel”, “Kriegsmanier” was “Kreigsmanier”, “Kriegsraison” was “Kreigsraison”, “Landkriegsrecht” was “Landekriegsrecht”, and “im Elsass” was “en Elsass”.