3 JUNE 1899, Page 25

First Steps in International Law. By Sir Sheraton Baker, Bart.

(Began Paul, Trench, and Co. 12s.)—Sir Sheraton Baker delivered a little more than a year ago a lecture on the Rights of Belligerents and Neutrals," and suggested various questions that had arisen during the war between the United States and Spain. The attitude taken up by the United States in former years has bearings of much im- portance on this subject. The lecture has been developed into a text-book, which is, of course, too technical to be dealt with in these columns, but which we may commend to the notice of our readers. --An attempt to give some practical effect to a science which has hitherto lacked somewhat on this side is World Politics, by " T." (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co., 6s.) What are the moral obligations of a State ? How can they be carried into action ? Such questions and the like are what " T." seeks to answer. No time could be more appropriate for their treatment.—Handbook of the Marriage Act, 1S9S. By 31. Roberts-Jones. (Evan Rees and Co. Cardiff. 2s.)