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 574 Revieivs of Books pendix, the full text of all the conventions, declarations and final resolutions are given in the original French, accompanied by a careful English translation in parallel columns ; also the full text of the reports made by the individual members of the American delegation, the report of the delegation itself to the Secretary of State, and finally, the ad- dresses delivered at the tomb of Grotius in the Great Church of Delft on the rainy Fourth of July, 1899. Looking at the tangible results of the Conference, one is naturally led to ask what is likely to be the practical value of its work. Mr. HoUs answers the question without the very least hesitation. He "frankly avows his conviction that the peace Conference accomplished a great and glorious result, not only in the humanizing of warfare and the codification of the laws of war, but, above all, in the promulgation of the Magna Charta of International Law." He believes that a long first step has been taken towards the establishment of a system that will substitute law for force in international relations ; and that, as a result, " the glamour of the supposed strength of reactionary government, or of the comforts of superstition will be gone, Faith will revive, the ' struggle of the soul ' will be won, and general discontent, the basis of all unrest, must correspondingly diminish." One may be permitted to doubt whether these tremendous results are likely to be achieved, even if all the recommendations of the Conference meet with general and loyal support ; but that its recommendations may be made to produce permanent results of great value, is, no doubt, highly probable. The most striking and beneficent feature of the proposed agreement is to be found in the fact that the signatory Powers in effect declare that no war can hereafter be justified until good offices and media- tion and arbitration have all been tried and have all failed. No one can as yet foresee how effectual this declaration will prove. But if the work of the Conference shall only tend to turn public attention in times of excitement towards the means by which war may honorably be averted, — if it only serves to point out several paths by which contending nations may find a way to peace, — it will have accomplished a task for which all nations may rightly praise it. It remains only to be said of the book under review that it is well printed, is reasonably free from typographical errors,— //wt'j- vet-beaux being perhaps the worst, — and that it is furnished with an adequate index. George L. Rives. Cabot Bibliography, ■■'ith an Introdiictory Essay on the Careers of the Cabots, based upon an Independent Examination of the Sources of Itifonnation. By George Parker Winship. (New- York : Dodd, Mead and Co.; London : Henry Stevens, Son and Stiles. 1900. Pp. Hi, 180.) This handsome volume is an expansion of Mr. Winship's "Bibliog- raphy" published in 1897. Every student of early American history