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The Two Hague Conferences by William I. HullThe Advocate of Peace (1894-1920), Vol. 70, No. 10 (NOVEMBER, 1908), pp. 248-249Published by: World Affairs InstituteStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20665605 .

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248 THE ADVOCATE OF PEACE. November,

connection with the matters under discussion. With

topical headings and abundant references to cases, which are given at the bottom of the page, the book is a useful introduction to the science for a beginner, but it is also a handy reference manual for the advanced student and

professional lawyer. For the army and naval officer, to whom in these days international law has become more

necessary than the sword and the gunboat, it has a special interest because it is written by a military man. It has the merit of General Davis' characteristic writing, as shown in his articles on the regulation of war and the Red Cross conventions, which have appeared in the American Journal of International Law, that of correct statement and explicit definition based on both practical experience and wide technical information. A conserva tive man, General Davis is not much inclined to specula tion, even if opportunity for it offered in a text-book, but, on the other hand, his brief comments give his book

individuality. General Davis was a delegate to the second Hague Conference, and has incorporated every where into the text of the third edition of his book the

changes made by that body. In the appendices he gives, besides the usual documents, beginning with Lieber's "

Instructions," the various conventions adopted at the second Hague Conference.

of the day and to create a healthy optimism which helps to carry the world forward.

Peter Moor's Journey to Southwest Africa.

A Narrative of the German Campaign. By Gustav Frenssen. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Company. 244 pages.

This book might well have been entitled " The Story of the German Madness in Southwest Africa." The general impression with which one rises from reading it is, How is it possible for a nation of our time, supposed to be endowed with an unusual amount of brains and a fair supply of conscience and humane feeling, to have gone into an enterprise so full of insaneness, injustice, cruelty and loathsomeness as this. Peter Moor, a young German con

script, volunteers with others to go to Southwest Africa to aid in suppressing the uprising of the natives against the German colonial aggression. He tells, in simple, un varnished terms, the story of his trip, of the fierce con flicts of his company with the enraged natives, of the long killing marches, the suffering from heat during the day and from cold at night, the torture from thirst, the dire diseases resulting from bad water and poor food, the awful sufferings of the wounded and dying in the bush, the perishing of countless horses from overriding, hunger and thirst, the Hottentot women "

always at the service of the soldiers," the crushing and annihilation of whole nations or tribes of the natives, the groups of hunger smitten women and children sitting dying in despair, the horrid stench from decaying men and animals, the water holes filled with corpses, etc. Whether intended to be so or not, the story is a scathing arraignment of the

iniquity and moral loathsomeness of war, and particularly of " civilized war "

against native peoples. It does not seem possible that any healthy German boy, or any other

boy, who should read this book, could ever be } ersuaded

by any sort of blandishments to go into the grewsorae business of man-killing. It was with the hope that it might assist in advancing the cause of peace that the translator, Margaret May Ward (since deceased), of

Temple, . H., turned the story into English. The story has certainly not suffered in the least by translation. The English is about as perfect as one ever reads.

Studies in International Law. By Coleman Phil

lipson, . A., of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law London: Stevens & Haynes. 1908. Cloth. 136 pages.

One of the new books sold by a famous British law

publishing house. This book, written originally at the

suggestion of the author's friend, Sir John MacDonn ell, to whom it is dedicated, is a brief but comprehensive treat ment of some of the international questions of the present hour. Two main topics are taken up,

" The Influence of International Arbitration on the Development of Inter national Law " and " The Rights of Neutrals and Bellig erents as to Submarine Cables, Wireless Telegraphy and

Intercepting of Information in Time of War." Both topics are treated historically as well as legally, the first, from the period of the Amphictyonic Council in Greece to the second Hague Conference, with an increasing amount of detail as the writer deals with the arbitrations of the nineteenth century, of which he has an excellent

summary; the second, from the laying of the Atlantic cable in 1858 to the second Conference at The Hague, including the Russo-Japanese war. The writer takes a

hopeful view of the international situation and is strongly impressed with the interdependence of the nations. He instances the two Hague Conferences as striking mani festations of a more intimate rapprochement between the nations. He notes that " though every power was ani mated by a sense of its own sovereignty and independence, yet the fact of their assembling in order to arrive at some definite principles of international practice implied a full recognition that their sovereignty was only relative, their independence really interdependence, and that a

body of harmonized, universally accepted principles re

garded as law alone possessed absolute sovereignty." He believes that the future historian when dealing with the

present decade will regard it as one of remarkable sig nificance in the history of the world. Such studies as these by Mr. Phillipson help to familiarize the public with the interesting and important international problems

The Two Hague Conferences. By William I. Hull, Professor of History in Swarthmore College. Boston :

Ginn & Company. 516 pages. Mailing price, $1.65.

Accurate and full information about the work and results of the Hague Conference has not heretofore been

easily accessible to ordinary inquirers. But Professor Hull in this work has put the whole subject into a form that leaves practically nothing to be desired in this direc tion. His training and habits as a student and teacher of history have admirably fitted him to understand and set forth the historic significance of the Hague meetings. But, in addition to this, he spent the entire summer of 1907 at The Hague, where he had every opportunity of

getting first-hand information about the character and

proceedings of the great Conference, and of understanding the spirit which pervaded it. He has made an admirable book, and the arrangement of it is such as greatly to facilitate the study of the Conferences as a whole, or in

separate sections and topics. The students in our

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1908. THE ADVOCATE OF PEACE. 249

universities and colleges who wish to study the labors and results of the two Conferences ? and there are thousands of them ? will find the work especially adapted to their needs. But it is equally well adapted to the needs of the general public.

International Arbitration and Peace Lecture Bureau, 31 Beacon Street, Boston.

The following persons may be secured to give lec

tures, club talks and addresses before public meetings, churches, schools and other organizations,

on interna

tional arbitration and peace. Those wishing their services should communicate directly with them as to dates and terms.

Mrs. Fannie Fern Andrews, 405 Marlboro St., Boston. Rev. A. Eugene Bartlett, 691? Washington Boulevard, Chicago. Kev. Charles E. Beals, 31 Beacon St., Boston.

Kaymond L. Bridgman, State House, Boston. E. Howard Brown, New Sharon, Iowa.

W. C. Dennis, State Department, Washington. Rev. Charles F. Dole, Jamaica Plain, Mass. Miss Anna B. Eckstein, 30 Newbury Street, Boston. Rev. Bradley Gilman, Canton Corner, Mass. Professor Cyrus W. Hodgin, Earlham College, Richmond, Ind. Hamilton Holt, 130 Fulton Street, New York. Rev. William G. Hubbard, Columbus, Ohio. Edwin D. Mead, 20 Beacon St., Boston. Lucia Ames Mead, 39 Newbury St., Boston. Dr. Ernst Richard, Columbia University, New York. Dr. Sylvester F. Scovel, Wooster University, Wooster, Ohio. Dr. Homer B. Sprague, 809 Grand View, Los Angeles, Cal. Dr. Benjamin F. Trueblood, 31 Beacon St., Boston. Rev. James L. Tryon, 31 Beacon Street, Boston.

Branches and Auxiliaries of the American Peace

Society. Branches.

The Peace Society of Southern California, 415 Severance Building, Los Angeles, Cal.

Dr. William V. Coffin, President. Robert C. Root, Secretary.

The Utah Peace Society, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Gov. John C. Cutler, President. J. M. Sjodahl, Secretary.

The New York Italian Peace Society, Hon. A. Zucca, President. Giovani Daniele, Secretary,

2039 First Ave., New York.

Auxiliaries. The CmcAao Peace Society,

175 Dearborn Street, Chicago, 111. H. W. Thomas, D. D., President.

.Secretary. The Connecticut Peace Society,

Hartford, Conn. Arthur Deerin Call, President, Mrs. Charles H. Adler, Secretary.

424 Washington St. The Kansas State Peace Society.

Wichita, Kansas, Prof. W. P. Trueblood, President. Orman Emery, Secretary.

New York German-American Peace Society, New York, N. Y.

Dr. Ernst Richard, President, 12 West 103d Street.

Theodor Meyer, Secretary, 444 Broome St.

Henry Feldman, Treasurer, 2835 Third Ave. The Arbitration and Peace Society of Cincinnati,

First National Bank Building, Cincinnati, Ohio. William Christie Herron, President. E. D. Lyon, Secretary.

The Texas State Peace Society, Waco, Texas.

Dr. S. P. Brooks, President. John K. Strecker, Jr., Secretary.

The Intercollegiate Peace'Association. Prof. Elbert Russell, President,

Richmond, Ind.

George Fulk, Secretary, Cerro Gordo, 111.

L'Oeuvre de la Haye en 1899 et en 1907. By Louis Renault, Professor at the University of Paris.

Stockholm, Sweden : P. A. Norstedt & Son.

This work of 24 pages, large octavo, is the lecture

given by Professor Renault at the Nobel Institute, Chris

tiania, Norway, on the 18th of May last, as one of the Nobel laureates of 1907. It is a discussion (in French) of the work of the two Hague Conferences, by one of the leading participants, as a delegate, in both of them.

Deuxi?me Conference Internationale de la

Paix. 276 pages, folio. Report of the French Dele

gates, published by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Das Internationale Leben der Gegenwart. By

A. . Fried. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner. Ill pages. Mr. Fried has given us in this little book (in German)

a most instructive and interesting presentation of the various phases of the International Life of the Present, including a list of more than one hundred international

congresses and conferences held within the past century, and a table,

" The Organization of the World," giving a list of seventy-eight general treaties and conventions

covering matters of international concern.

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