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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Sir Travers Twiss (1809–1897)

Twiss, Sir Travers. A celebrated English writer and authority on international law; born in London, March 19, 1809; died there, Jan. 14, 1897. He resigned all his important offices in 1872. He published: ‘View of the Progress of Political Economy since the Sixteenth Century’ (1847); ‘Lectures on International Law’ (1856); ‘The Law of Nations’ (1861); ‘Law of Nations in Times of War’ (1863); ‘Monumenta Juridica’ (1871–76); ‘Belligerent Right on the High Seas’ (1884).