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fied by most of the Powers, have vindi cated his attitude toward the results of
advance from the nineteenth century
this notable formulation of new legal
tion of interdependence. The writer has
principles.
quality. The introductory paragraphs in heavy type make it easy to
views of his own, which he boldly main tains and copiously illustrates. It is a pleasure to read a book marked by such facility and originality of expression, and the author's ideas, which much space would be required to set forth and dis cuss, are maintained with a stimulating
find what is wanted. There are five appendices, containing (1) the Declara
to convey the author's meaning, he in
The material of the second
Hague Conference, ‘of 1907, is utilized. There is also a liberal use of quotations
from recent treaties and state docu ments. The work thus has an up-to-date
tion of Paris of April 16, 1856, (2) the
Instructions for the Government of Armies of the United States in the Field, April 24, 1863, (3) the revised
Geneva Convention for the Ameliora tion of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field, July 6, 1906,
(4) various acts of the Hague Conference of 1907, and (5) the Declaration of London. The book is one of the best which have appeared in the excellent Hornbook Series. This treatise is really an enlarged ver sion of Wilson and Tucker's Inter
position of independence to a new posi
vigor of style.
If a term does not exist
vents one. By “penetration" he means the influx of foreign elements asserting distinct rights of their own in opposition to those guarded by the territorial sov ereign, and by “stratification" he means a breaking up of the system of terri torial sovereignty to make room for a
new organization of social classes, among which order is to be maintained by an ap
plication not of the principle of national independence but of that of what he
national Law, which follows a similar
calls “federation." The author is strongly in sympathy with the peace movement, and does not approve of pacific blockade, nor of any imposition upon a weaker
arrangement of topics. The latter work, in its fifth edition, is brought up-to-date so as to cover the same ground as the
actual war. What he says about arbi tration is worth attention, and his entire
former, without the use of so much
book, in fact, is extremely readable.
illustrative material. As the first edi tion appeared as recently as 1901, the whole subject-matter has freshness. The
power by measures which fall short of
Dr. Lawrence's "Principles of Inter national Law," first issued in 1895, and largely rewritten in its fourth edition,
appendices contain the same documents, and the book, which is recognized as a
seems to have realized its author's aim
standard authority, will be found use ful by those who desire a short,
"to present a connected narrative and
a more informal character, and is not
give to my account of matters usually deemed inimical to style a certain amount of cleamess and literary form." This well-known and well established work is perhaps distinguished from most other treatises of similar scope by a happy
what its name suggests, but simply a discussion of current tendencies rather
modes of discussion. On the one hand
than an orderly exposition of principles. The book is, in fact, a lengthy essay on
Dr. Lawrence seems to write with the painstaking care of the scholar, on the
the tendency of the law of nations to
other with a spontaneity and animation
condensed summary of the rules of international law in their latest form. Dr. Baty's "International Law" is of
fusion of the academic and literary
