4 JUNE 1937, Page 20

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—After a moment of

perplexity I have identified " Austin " as the sometime Poet Laureate. But at first I thought Janus was crediting the Admiralty with a desire to make an excursion into International Law, and falling unluckily on the name of the jurist whose connexion with that study was to deny the right to exist. But I would have liked to see a flotilla of inter- national lawyers—a Grotian, a Stowell, a Marshall, a Zouche- one could make a good list, the more so as we should ex hypo- these not be limited to British names.—Yours, &c.,

JURIST.