The Elements of Maritime International Law. By William de Burgh.
(Longmans.)—Everything treated of by Mr. de Burgh is made perfectly plain and intelligible, so that hia book may be read after the popular writings and studied after the completer works on the same subject. He has the power of communicating facts in a simple style, and arrang- ing them in something like order, neither of which characteristics belong
to the composers of all text-books. Of coarse, Mr. de Burgh does not pretend to master the whole science of maritime law, nor does he profess to popularize it after the manner of "Historians." But he deals with
the various points which necessarily arise out of the subject soundly and clearly, without illustrating them by needless reference to modern controversies, or pledging us to his view by enlisting our patriotic ardour. In his preface he gives the American version of the Alabama question considerable weight, and concludes that 'the Federal Government had moat serious grounds for their remonstrance."
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