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so lucid and brilliant as Monsieur Boutmy in the author’s own language. The object of the translator has been not to render the French original sentence by sentence, and still less word for word, but to give, as far as possible, the meaning, the effect, and the spirit of each of Monsieur Boutmy’s pages.
An Appendix to the second edition of the Études de Droit Constitutionnel contains replies to some of Monsieur Boutmy’s critics. This Appendix is omitted in the translation. The criticisms being for the most part unknown in England, the answers thereto have, it is conceived, little interest for English students.
For the few notes, enclosed in brackets and marked (D), I am myself solely responsible.
A. V. Dicey.
Oxford. May, 1891.
