As the World Court has now passed out of the
experimental stage and become a settled institution with fourteen completed cases to its credit, there is need of the practical text-book "in the Court and its work which Mr. Fachiri has produced. He writes as a lawyer, striving for exactitude in the statement of what is, not concerned with predicting what may be or ought to be hereafter. His long chapter summarizing the cases dealt with will interest the layman most of all ; even the puzzling case of the Greek coneessionnaire in Palestine, which has baffled many commentators, is made intelligible, though the decision, to the English mind, seems over-subtle. The author emphasizes the fact that "the Court is an institution distinct from the League," though the League elects the judges, and that the obligation to accept the Court's decision is a moral one. There is an appendix of documents with a good index.
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