18 MARCH 1922, Page 23

The Transactions of the Grotius Society for 1921 (Sweet and

Maxwell. 8s. 6d. net) include tributes to the late Henry Goudy, Sir John Macdonell and Lord Reay, and, among other papers, an instructive essay by Professor Bellot on "The Right of a Belligerent Merchantman to Attack," with special reference to the judicial murder of Captain Fryatt by the Germans. The complexities of " self-determination " are illustrated by Baron Heyking's paper on " The Baltic Minorities " ; the Germans in Esthonia and Latvia claim through him the recognition of their racial interests, which, he says, the Esthonians and Letts are inclined to disregard.