20 MAY 1899, Page 25

The Federation of the World. By Benjamin F. Trueblood, LLD.

(Houghton, Mifflin, and Co., Boston, U.S. 4s.)—Dr. Trueblood's volume, consisting of lectures delivered at the Meadville Theological School in 1897, is a seasonable publication. We cannot accept all his conclusions, or share his hopes. . Citizens of England, who find that arbitrations always end in adverse decisions, feel it hard to be enthusiastic ; they can only hope that these anticipations are well grounded.—With this may be mentioned International Courts of Arbitration, by Thomas Balch (H. T. Coates and Co., Philadelphia), a republication of an essay first published nearly a _quarter of a century ago in the Law Magazine and Review.