value, the pages being those of the sixth edition,[1] published in 1909: pp. 1–16, on the views held as to the origin and nature of International Law (with foot-notes, pp. 2–3), and on the value of treaties (how far are they expressive of a movement of thought?); pp. 140–51, on the extent to which the sea can be appropriated (a consideration of facts and conditions from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century); pp. 337–52, on the interpretation of treaties, their effects, execution, and extinction, with historical illustrations; pp. 373–4, on wars of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries 'begun' without 'declarations'; pp. 571–87, on the growth of the law affecting belligerent and neutral States to the close of the eighteenth century; pp. 631–4, on 'the rule of the war of 1756', and its extension in 1793; pp. 638–48, on contraband from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century; pp. 705–6, with foot-notes, on blockade; and pp. 715–22, on neutral ships and enemy goods. A valuable feature of Mr. Hall's work is the considerable number of references it gives to State Papers.
The standard work on cases in International Law is that of Martens,[2] Causes célèbres du droit des gens,[3] first published in 1827. Mr. Pitt Cobbett's Leading Cases and Opinions on International Law[4] is well arranged, but at only a few points is of value to the historical student: pp. 144–8, on the Silesian Loan[5]—a lucid exposition; pp. 292–5, on neutral trade from
- ↑ Edited by Atlay, pp. xxiv + 768.
- ↑ Charles de Martens, nephew of G. F. von Martens, and author of Le Guide diplomatique.
- ↑ 2 vols. (Leipzig), 1827, and Nouvelles causes célèbres, 2 vols., 1844. A second edition of the work was published in five volumes in 1858–61.
- ↑ 1885; 2nd ed. 1892, pp. xxiv + 385.
- ↑ Martens, Causes célèbres, ii. 97. See also Sir Ernest Satow, The Silesian Loan and Frederick the Great, 1915, pp. 448. There is a chapter of twenty pages on 'Prize Law in the first half of the Eighteenth Century'.
