Higher Nationality : a Study in Law and Ethics. By
Viscount Haldane of Cloan. (John 'Murray. Is. net.)—We are glad to notice a reissue of the tadress delivered by Lord Haldane on September 1st before the American Bar Associa- tion at Montreal. It will be remembered that the greater portion of the address was concerned with discussing the possibility of the development of a highe.. standard of ideals —a Sittlichk,eit—in international relations.
"The barbarism," says Lord Haldane, "which once looked to conquest and the waging of successful wars as the main object of statesmanship, seems as though it were passing away. There have been established rules of international law which already govern the conduct of war itself, and are generally observed as binding by all civilized people, with the result that the cruelties of war have been lessened. If practice fall short of theory, at least there is to-day little effective challenge of the broad prin- ciple that a nation has as regards its neighbours duties as well as rights. It is this spirit that may develop as time goes on into a full international Sittlichkeit."
We cannot comment here upon these sentiments, but will only add that the address is one which deserves to be studied with more attention than it can have received when read only as a newspaper report.
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