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In general, he leans strongly to the in the pages of this book — the inter analogy of the future aerial law with national status of the canal itself, neu admiralty law in considering such ques tralization, fortification, and the Monroe tions as collisions, contract, insurance Doctrine. The main feature of the volume, how and criminal jurisdiction, a view in which most of his readers will agree ever, is to present the question whether the erection of fortifications on the route with him. The third lecture takes up the prin of the canal is repugnant to the neutrali ciples and problems of international zation of the canal. The author reaches law, regarding which the analogous the conclusion that it would not be. regulation of wireless telegraphy is The book does not pretend to be an examined in detail. The applicable exhaustive treatise, nor yet one for the texts of the 1906 project of the Institut merely casual reader. It is rather in de droit international and the 1906 inter the nature of an essay for the serious national convention are examined. The reader who wants a plain statement of well-known case of The Haimun, which the problem laid before him to assist was chartered by the London Times in him to appreciate this and kindred ques the Russo-Japanese War and fitted with tions which the present generation of wireless, is studied for its sidelights on American citizens must solve in the the effects of using the air in wartime. management of the canal. L. M. F. The author concludes generally that BOOKS RECEIVED airmen cannot be considered as spies per Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. se. Certain provisions of the conven Year Book for 1911. Published at 2 Jackson place, tions of the second Hague Conference Washington, D. C. Pp. 195. History of the Bench and Bar of California. and the positive action of the Declara Edited by J. C. Bates. With portraits. . Bench tion of London are discussed. And and Bar Publishing Co., San Francisco. Pp. 672. again the author concludes in favor of The Control of Trusts. By John Bates Clark full aerial sovereignty. In fact, the and John Maurice Clark. Rewritten and enlarged. Macmillan Co., New York. Pp. 202. book is virtually an argument for that The Relations of Education to Citizenship. By theory, which to Anglo-Saxons is the Simeon E. Baldwin. (Yale Lectures on the Respon sibilities of Citizenship.) Yale University Press, only correct one. D. p. M. New Haven; Oxford University Press, London. ARIAS' PANAMA CANAL The Panama Canal: A Study in International Law and Diplomacy. By Harmodio Arias, B.A., LL.B., sometime Exhibitioner and Prizeman of St. John's College, Cambridge; Quain Prizeman in Internationa] Law, University of London. P. S. King & Son, London. Pp. xiv, 148 + (appendices and index). (10s. 6d. net.)

THE questions of international law and diplomacy presented in the problems of the Panama Canal are both of vital importance and of great variety. Already since the writing of this book Great Britain and the United States have differed widely over the proper construc tion of the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty. Other problems of almost equal im portance are discussed and presented

Pp. 171 + 6 (index). ($1.15 net.) The Law relating to Conflicting Uses of Electricity and Electrolysis. By George F. Deiser, of the Philadelphia bar. T. & J. W. Johnson Co., Phila delphia. Pp. xv, 128 + 10 (index). ($2.50.) The New Competition; an examination of the conditions underlying the radical change that is taking place in the commercial and industrial world — the change from a competitive to a co-opera tive basis. By Arthur Jerome Eddy, author of The Law of Combinations, etc. D. Appleton & Co., New York and London. Pp. 343 + 17 (appen dices) + 14 (index). ($2 net.) A History of French Private Law. By Jean Brissaud, late Professor of Legal History in the University of Toulouse. Translated from the 2d French edition by Rapelje Howell of the New York bar; with introductions by W. S. Holdsworth, Reader in English Law, St. John's College, Oxford, and John H. Wigmore, Professor of Law, North western University, v. 3 of Continental Legal History Series, published under auspices of Asso ciation of American Law Schools. Little, Brown & Co., Boston. Pp. xlviii, 905 + 14 (index). ($5 net.)