In A World Outlook (Methuen, Os.) Mr. W. Watkin Davies
has embodied a series of introductory lectures, originally delivered to a W.E.A. School, on the study of international relations. Although his avowed object is primarily to impart to the student and citizen a point of view, the author endeavours to cover in a short space the whole field of history pertinent to his subject, and to give a- brief sketch of international law, both as it was and as, according to the author, it is to-day. Admirable though these lectures may have been for the purposes of the audience to whom they were originally delivered, it is doubtful whether the average educated reader will benefit much, either in outlook or in knowledge, from reading them in book form, while it is certain that the needs of the serious student cannot adequately be met in so small a space.
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