International Law. New York: Oxford University Press, American Branch. 1916. pp. 1+162. $2.00.

This is a reprint of the original edition of 1840, prefixed by an introduction by James Brown Scott, Director, in which the purpose of Ladd in publishing the work is set forth. A very complete statement of the earlier origin and history of the movement looking to a congress of nations forms a large part of the work and is most instructive.

Instructions to the American Delegates to the Hague Peace Conferences and their Official Reports. Publication of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Division of International Law. Edited with an introduction by James Brown Scott, Director. New York: Oxford University Press, American Branch. 1916. pp. v, 138. $1.50.

The Editor's announcement gives in concise form the purpose of this publication:

This book was prepared to meet a frequent request for information respecting these instructions and reports which are not to be found elsewhere in convenient form. Prefixed to the instructions and reports relative to each of the two conferences are documents of a preliminary character showing the origin of each conference and the successive steps taken in advance of the holding of the conferences. The reports of the two delegations will be found most interesting and instructive in that they represent the views of the American delegates on the particular subjects referred to and which were the subject of action by the conferences.

The Status of the International Court of Justice and An International Court of Justice. By James Brown Scott. Publications of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Division of International Law. New York: Oxford University Press, American Branch. 1916. pp. v, 93 and 108. $1.50 each.

The first is an exposition of the present status of the International Court, giving the reasons for or objects of its proposal, with the previous history of the movement in favor of arbitration. It also discusses the project of the American delegates submitted to the Second Hague Conference and the reasons for the nonestablishment of the Court by that Conference. An appendix contains addresses by the different delegates at the Conference on the subject of the proposed Court, and other pertinent documents, including a draft convention for its establishment.

What might be called a companion volume has also been issued by the Division of International Law under the title An International Court of Justice. It is a reprint of a letter and memorandum prepared and submitted by Dr. Scott on January 12, 1914, to the Netherland Minister for Foreign Affairs, which, recognizing the great difficulties in the way of establishing a court for all the nations of the world, propose the constitution of the court by a limited number of Powers as a first step toward a world court.

BOOKS RECEIVED

(Mention here does not preclude an extended notice in a later issue of the JOURNAL.)

Addresses on International Subjects. By Elihu Root. Collected and edited by Robert Bacon and James Brown Scott. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1916. pp. ix, 463. $2.50.)

Latin-America and the United States. Addresses by Elihu Root. Collected and edited by Robert Bacon and James Brown Scott. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1917. pp. xvi, 302. $2.50.)

Military and Colonial Policy of the United States. Addresses and Reports by Elihu Root. Collected and edited by Robert Bacon and James Brown Scott. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1916. pp. xxiv, 502. $2.50.)

Addresses on Government and Citizenship. By Elihu Root. Collected and edited by Robert Bacon and James Brown Scott. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1916. pp. ix, 552. $2.50.)

Jewish Disabilities in the Balkan States. American contributions toward their removal, with particular reference to the Congress of Berlin. By Max J. Kohler and Simon Wolf. A paper presented at the twenty-fourth annual meeting of the American Jewish Historical Society. (Publication No. 24 of the American Jewish Historical Society. 1916. pp. xi, 169.)

Leading Cases on International Law. By Lawrence B. Evans, of the Massachusetts Bar. (Chicago: Callahan & Co. 1917. Cloth, pp. xix, 477. $3.50.)

A Guide to Diplomatic Practice. By the Rt. Hon. Sir Ernest Satow. (London and New York: Longmans, Green & Co. 1917. Cloth, 2 vols., pp. xxii, 407, ix, 405. $9.00.)

International Conventions and Third States. A monograph by Ronald F. Roxburgh, of the Middle Temple. (London and New York: Longmans, Green & Co. 1917. Cloth, pp. xvi, 119. $2.50.)

America's Case against Germany. By Lindsay Rogers, Adjunct Professor of Political Science in the University of Virginia. (New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. Cloth, pp. xv, 264. $1.50.)

The Immediate Causes of the Great War. By Oliver Perry Chitwood, Professor of European History in West Virginia University. (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co. Cloth, pp. xii, 196. $1.35.)

Die Gestaltung des Völkerrechts nach dem Weltkriege. By Otfried Nippold. (Zurich: Orell Fussli. 1917. Paper, pp. vi, 285. 10 fr.)

The Political Writings of Jean Jacques Rousseau. Edited from the original manuscripts and authentic editions, with introductions and notes, by C. E. Vaughan, Emeritus Professor of English Literature in the University of Leeds. (Cambridge: University Press. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1915. Cloth, 2 vols., xix, 516, 577. $18.50.)

The American Peace Treaties. Full texts of treaties, with an introduction and a commentary, by Chr. L. Lange, Secretary General. (Interparliamentary Union: Christiania. 1915. Paper, pp. 80.)

Problems of the War. Papers read before the Grotius Society in the year 1916. Vol. II. (London: Sweet and Maxwell, Ltd. 1917. pp. xxv, 178. 6s.)

La Garantie de la Société des Nations. By Gaston Moch. (Paris: Marcel Rivière & Cie. 1916. Paper, pp. 44. 40 centimes.)

Les Affinités françaises de l'Alsace avant Louis XIV et l'iniquité de sa séparation de la France. By Jacques Flach, member of the Institute and professor at the College of France. (Paris: Recueil Sirey. 1915. Paper, pp. 158. 2 fr. 50.)

Du droit de la force à la force du droit. By Edgard Milhaud, Professor at the University of Geneva. (Geneva: Edition Atar. 1915. Paper, pp. 128. 1 fr.)

The Stakes of Diplomacy. Popular ed. By Walter Lippmann. (New York: Henry Holt & Co. 2d ed. Paper, pp. xxii, 235. 60c.)

Fluctuation of the Populations during the World War. I. Germany and France. Bulletin No. 3 of the Society for the Study of the Social Consequences of the War. (Copenhagen: Selskabet for Social Forsken af Krigens Folger. 1917. Paper, pp. 141.)

Defensively armed Merchant Ships and Submarine Warfare. By A. Pearce Higgins. (London: Stevens & Sons, Ltd. 1917. Paper, pp. 56. 1s.)

The Mexican Constitution of 1917 compared with the constitution of 1857. Translated and arranged by H. N. Branch, with a foreword by Dr. L. S. Rowe. (Philadelphia: The American Academy of Political and Social Science. 1917. Paper, pp. v, 116.)

Russian Foreign Policy in the East. By Milivoy S. Stanoyevich. Oakland and San Francisco: Liberty Publishing Company. 1916. (Paper, pp. viii, 38.)

The Monroe Doctrine, an Interpretation. By Dr. Albert Bushnell Hart. (Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 1916. Pp. xiv, 445.)

Breaches of Anglo-American Treaties. By Major John Bigelow, U.S.A., retired. (New York: Sturgis & Walton, 1917. Pp. ix, 248. $1.50 net.)

Germany's Commercial Grip on the World. By Henri Hauser. Translated by Manfred Emanuel. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1917. Pp. 259.)

Die Völkerrechtliche Stellung des Papstes und die Friedenskonferenzen. By Dr. Josef Müller. (New York: Benziger Bros. 1916. Pp. xvi, 234.) Los Extranjeros en Venezuela. By Dr. Simon Planas Suarez. 2d ed. (Lisbon: Centro Tipografico Colonial. 1917. Pp. 368.)

America and the Canal Title. By Joseph C. Freehoff. (Published by the author. 1916. Pp. 404. $1.50 net. The same in Spanish, published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia. Pp. 342.)

The Deportation of Women and Girls from Lille. Translation of note addressed by French Government to neutral Powers, with extracts from documents. (New York: G. H. Doran Co. Pp. 81.)

Teoria Criticia de las Bases del Derecho. Internacional Privado. Tomo primero. (Caracas. 1917. Pp. x, 446.)

Organisation Centrale pour une Paix durable. Recueil des Rapports sur les différents points du Programme-Minimum. 3d pt. Pp. 383; Commentaire officiel du Programme-Minimum. Pp. xv, 48. (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff. 1917.)