Abstract

Books in Brief

The article presents information on some recent books. Some of these include John Butler Yeats's "Essays Irish and American," T.J. Lawrence's "The Society of Nations" and William Robertson Nicoll's "Reunion in Eternity." In the book "The Society of Nations" Lawrence recognizes the fact that the League of Nations can survive only as the peoples of the world accept the spiritual significance implied in it. He assumes that the League of Nations cannot come into being except through the formulation of an international legal code, to evolve from the codes which obtained in the relations between sovereign nations in 1914. But the League of Nations must evolve, if it is to survive, not through legal codes, but through the common solutions of economic problems.