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Reviews of Books INTERNATIONAL LAW Handbook of International Law. By George Grafton Wilson. Professor of International Law in Harvard University, Lecturer on International Law in Brown University and in the United States Naval War College. American Delegate Plenipoten tiary to the International Naval Conference. Associé de l'lnstitut de Droit International. West Publishing Company, St. Paul. Pp. xxi + 482 + 106 (appendices and mes cited) + 33 (index). ($3.75 delivered.) International Law. By George Grafton Wilson. Ph.D., Professor in Brown University, and George Fox Tucker. Ph.D.. Lately Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. 5th ed. Silver, Burdett & Company. New York. Boston & Chicago. Pp. xix, 345 + appendices 140 and Index 15. (92.50.) International Law. By T. Baty. D.C.L.. LL.D., of the Inner Temple. Barrister-at-Law. Longmans. Green & Co., New York. Pp. 346+ index 18. The Principles of International Law. By T. J. Lawrence, M.A., LL.D., Member of the Institute of International Law, Honorary Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge. Sometime Professor of Inter national Law in the University of Chicago. 4th edition. D. C. Heath & Co., Boston. Pp. xxi. 732 + 13 (index). (83.) A Digest of the Law of England with Reference to the Conflict of Laws. By Professor A. V. Dicey. K. C., Hon. D.C.L. 2d edition. Cromarty Law Book Co., 1112 Chestnut street, Philadelphia. Pp. xcii + 714 + appendix and index 169. (88.) Letters to The Times upon War and Neutrality (1881-1909). with some commentary. By Thomas Erskine Holland, K.C., D.C.L., F.B.A., Chichele Professor of International Law. Vice-President de L'lnstitut de Droit International, etc. Longmans. Green 8: Co., New York. Pp. xi, 162+ index 4. ($1.75 net.) International Incidents for Discussion in Con versation Classes. By L. Oppenheim. LL.D., Whewell Professor of International Law in the University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Press; G. P. Putnam's Sons. New York. Pp. xi, 129. Alternate pages left blank for notes. (81.)

F GOOD text-books of international law written in English there is no

lack.

American scholarship, however

ripe, can hope to add little to European

erudition. Partly as an indirect conse quence of its unique position in world politics, possibly, England at the pres

ent time is proliﬁc of good writing in this ﬁeld, as may be seen merely by referring

to that group of contemporaries which in cludes Westlake, Lawrence, Oppenheimi Holland, Dicey and Baty, not to men

tion others of similar distinction. We Americans, from the time of Wheaton and Story, have reared a respectable school of international jurists, and may

take pride in the accomplishments of Wilson, Moore and Scott. The ﬁeld of oughly international covered law, by however, a numberis of so exist U101" ing treatises constantly being brought "_P to date by new editions, that there 15

little use of a new work, unless it can offer some special practical advantage over the others. Such an advanmge ‘5 found in Professor Wilson's Handbook of International Law. It treats its sub

ject from an American standpoint, with numerous citations of American authori ties, and is an elementary text-b00k particularly well arranged for quick refer ence. It fully discusses latest phases of the development of international law’ and it has a well-deﬁned ﬁeld of useful ance. ness which readily justiﬁes its appear‘ Professor Wilson in the preparation of this book recognized the importance of the Declaration of London of 1909. and recent events, showing that the Declaration is in a fair way to be rati