Mexico and the Caribbean. Edited by G. H. Blakeslee. (New
York : 0. E. Stechert.)—This book contains twenty-three lectures delivered by as many lecturers at a Conference upon International Relations at Clark University, Worcester, Massa- chusetts, in May last. The lectures on Mexico put the case for and against intervention ; most of their authors desired American assistance for a disordered country rather than armed inter- vention which would offend the rest of Latin America. Among the lectures on the Caribbean there is one by Senor Rodriguez, of Porto Rico,who, while admitting that the United States had done a very great deal for the island in the past twenty years, urged that Porto Rico should be accorded independence or local autonomy or should be admitted as a State of the Union. Colonel Thorpe, of the United States Marine Corps, put the case very clearly for the American occupation of Haiti and Santo Domingo, and a German-American stated the case for the Dominican bandits who uphold " self-determination." The lectures illus- trate the difficulties of American foreign policy.
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