Dr. Pearce Higgins has not long survived his resignation of
his Cambridge professorship, the duties of which he was, I believe, to have discharged till the end of next term. At any rate his successor,. Dr. McNair, begins his lectures in October. Dr. Higgins was a leading figure in the comparatively small group of distinguished international lawyers in this country, and he shared with Lord Sankey membership of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague. That body, strangely mis-named a court, for it is simply a panel of arbitrators, has of course nothing to do with the Permanent Court of International Justice, also domiciled at the Hague. It is a fruit of the conference which inspired so many high hopes when summoned by the Tsar of Russia in 1899 to give peace to the world. Almost before the conference ended Great Britain was at war with the Boer Republics.
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