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International Law in Africa. By T. Baty. (Stevens and Haynes.

5s.)—Mr. Baty's book—the publication of lectures delivered at Oxford—may be profitably read by persons not specially interested in the study of international law. Mr. Baty may be described as Boeranis part ibus non iniquus, and the leaning, if such there be, does not make his work less, instructive. We should like to put to our readers two points. What was the right thing to do to the Boer who, having exhausted his ammu- nition, firing to the last moment, with the enemy within ten yards of him, exclaimed "I surrender !" ? And is it right to punish the destruction of a railway by fining the neighbourhood in which the act is committed? Chap. 4, "Conduct of War- fare," will be found especially interesting.