Page:Diplomacy and the Study of International Relations (1919).djvu/135

 value, the pages being those of the sixth edition, published in 1909: pp. 1–16, on the views held as to the origin and nature of International Law (with foot-notes, pp. 2–3), and on the value of treaties (how far are they expressive of a movement of thought?); pp. 140–51, on the extent to which the sea can be appropriated (a consideration of facts and conditions from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century); pp. 337–52, on the interpretation of treaties, their effects, execution, and extinction, with historical illustrations; pp. 373–4, on wars of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries 'begun' without 'declarations'; pp. 571–87, on the growth of the law affecting belligerent and neutral States to the close of the eighteenth century; pp. 631–4, on 'the rule of the war of 1756', and its extension in 1793; pp. 638–48, on contraband from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century; pp. 705–6, with foot-notes, on blockade; and pp. 715–22, on neutral ships and enemy goods. A valuable feature of Mr. Hall's work is the considerable number of references it gives to State Papers.

The standard work on cases in International Law is that of Martens, Causes célèbres du droit des gens, first published in 1827. Mr. Pitt Cobbett's Leading Cases and Opinions on International Law is well arranged, but at only a few points is of value to the historical student: pp. 144–8, on the Silesian Loan —a lucid exposition; pp. 292–5, on neutral trade from