The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam are here for the first time presented complete in a collection of this order. The various editions of Fitzgerald are reprinted, collated, and to them is added the valuable Heron-Allen analysis of Fitzgerald's sources of inspiration. The very rare Whinfield version is found here complete; and for the first time in English appears M. Nicolas' French transcription of the Teheran Manuscript. It is safe to say that any lover of Omar wishing to add to his collection the versions here quoted would be compelled to disburse more than one hundred times the amount this book will cost him. While the Library of Universal Classics does not claim to be the final condensation of the treasure houses of human philosophy and lore, whether practical or ideal, it does most emphatically assert its right to be called the most useful, most attractive, and most representative selection, within the limits assigned to it, of those world-masterpieces of literature which men, for lack of a more luminous name, call Classics. Robert Arnot [Illustration: _HUGO GROTIUS_ _From an Original Painting._] [Illustration] THE RIGHTS OF WAR AND PEACE INCLUDING THE LAW OF NATURE AND OF NATIONS TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL LATIN OF GROTIUS WITH NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS FROM POLITICAL AND LEGAL WRITERS BY A. C. CAMPBELL, A. M. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID J. Hill, Assistant Secretary of State of the United States M. WALTER DUNNE, PUBLISHER NEW YORK & LONDON COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY M. WALTER DUNNE, PUBLISHER ILLUSTRATIONS HUGO GROTIUS _Frontispiece_ From an original painting. WAR 109 By Gari Melchers, From a panel painting in Library of Congress. PEACE 213 By Gari Melchers, From a panel painting in Library of Congress. WAR AND PEACE 307 Frontispiece to a rare edition of Grotius. CONTENTS _BOOK I._ CHAPTER PAGE Introduction 1 I. On War and Right 17 II. Inquiry into the Lawfulness of War 31 III. The Division of War into Public and Private, and the Nature of Sovereign Power 55 _BOOK II._ I. Defense of Person and Property 73 II. The General Rights of Things 85 III. On the Original Acquisition of Things, and the Right of Property in Seas and Rivers 103