CURRENT LITERATURE.
THE ANGLO-AMERICAN.
The Anglo-American Magazine. July, 1900. (The Anglo-Ameri- can Publishing Company, New York. 25 cents.)—This magazine is "published monthly in the interest of all whose language is English," and is designed to promote a common feeling between the two great English-speaking peoples of America. The number before us contains an interesting article on Joseph Arch and an elaborate forecast of the future of mining by Mr. W. H. Lynch. The most important paper is an able and lucid statement of the legal aspect of the question at issue in the present South African War by Mr. John Stuart Buchan, Q.C., in which an effective reply is made to the statements of Dr. Karl Blind and Professor Bryce in the North American Review. Mr. Buchan examines in detail the terms of the Convention of 1884, and shows that by that Convention Great Britain had a right to interfere in the internal affairs of the Transvaal if certain conditions were not fulfilled. "Her right to interfere," be says, " is primarily that of a contracting party which has granted another certain rights, subject to certain conditions which the latter is bound to observe as the consideration, in part at least, of the agreement under which such rights are enjoyed. In other words, the common and well-understood principles of contract apply with all their force in the present case." He then proceeds to show how the condi- tions have been repeatedly broken by the South African Republic. Mr. Buchan's argument, going no further than the Convention of 1884, which is the sheet-anchor of the anti-war party, is a timely and able reply from a lawyer's point of view.
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