POLITICAL IDEAS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. By Randolph Greenfield Adams,
Ph.D., Durham, North Carolina. (Trinity College Press. $2.00.) In this book Professor Adams has written brilliantly along original lines. He sees in the present-day Britannic Common- wealth of Nations " completely equipped laboratories for the study of international relations, for there is being worked out the idea of a league of nations without too much idle discussion as to the residence of sovereignty." "The British Imperial problem," he says, " in the eighteenth as in the twentieth century consisted in the question of how to make the political machinery of the empire catch up to the facts of the empire." What part the American Colonies had in this work and the modern significance of their political ideas constitutes Professor Adams's notable study in international law.
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