8 APRIL 1916, Page 20

The Hague ifibitralion Cases. Edited by G. G. Wilson, LL.D.

(Ginn and Co. 15s. net.)— Here arc recorded fifteen awards given at the Hague. It might have been conceivable that such questions should have led on to wars instead of arbitration : therefore the tribunals may be congratulated. But nobody doubts now, and statesmen never doubted, that though such disputes may furnish cam's belli to aggressive States, they are not truly causae ben Here are included the settlement of the maritime boundary between Sweden and Norway, the question of the North Atlantic fisheries I etwecn ourselves and the United States, various claims against Venezuela, a dispute between the United States and a recent Government of Mexico, and three happily settled matters between France and Italy.