Review

Author(s): Lawrence Martin

Review by: Lawrence Martin
Source: The American Journal of International Law, Vol. 22, No. 2 (Apr., 1928), p. 458
Published by: American Society of International Law
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2188561
Accessed: 16-01-2016 09:55 UTC

Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/
info/about/policies/terms.jsp

JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content
in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship.
For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.

American Society of International Law is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The American
Journal of International Law.

http://www.jstor.org

This content downloaded from 170.140.26.180 on Sat, 16 Jan 2016 09:55:24 UTC
All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions
 BOOK REVIEWS*
National Frontiersin Relation to InternationalLaw. By VittorioAdami,
translatedby T. T. Behrens. London: OxfordUniversityPress (Hum-
phreyMilford),1927. pp. viii, 127. Index. $3.50.
This treatisedoes not include a word regardingthe boundarysettlements
in Europe since 1919. No one could assume,however,that the delimitation
of the several European boundariesduringthe last decade has contributed
nothingto internationallaw. It appears, therefore, that the authorand the
editorof this workshould have explainedtheirbasis foromittingdiscussion
of the vast and enlighteningexperienceof recentyears. The author of the
workis a colonelin the Italian army,attached to the historicalsectionofthe
generalstaff;the editorand translatoris a lieutenantcolonelofBritishRoyal
Engineersand was a memberof the Italo-Austrianboundary commission.
Surelythese gentlemenare familiarwiththe problemsof boundarymarking
whichhave lately arisen.
The book has eleven chapters,dealingwithfrontiers in general,mountain
boundaries,riverboundaries,boundaries on lakes, sea boundaries,artificial
and conventionalboundaries,aerial boundaries,boundarymarks,delimita-
tion documents,boundarydisputes,and boundarymagistracies. These are
the work of Colonel Adami. An appendix by Colonel Behrens discusses
in markingboundariesupon watersheds. There is a bibliography
difficulties
of fivepages and a convenientlydetailed index.
Historicallythe book appears to stand by itselfas an exceedinglyuseful
accountofthe legal basis ofboundarymarkingin Italy and southernEurope.
It occasionally goes to other parts of the world for illustrativematerial,
though it is far fromexhaustive. In discussingconventionalboundaries
based upon geographicalcoordinates,for example, Adami refersto such
boundariesin Africabut says nothingabout the northernboundaryof the
United States west of the Lake of the Woods or the eastern boundary of
Alaska northof Mt. St. Elias.
LAWRENCE MARTIN.

From Bismarck to the World War. A Historyof GermanForeign Policy,

1870-1914. By Erich Brandenburg. Translated by Annie Elizabeth
Adams. London: OxfordUniversityPress (Humphrey Milford), 1927.
pp. xiii,542.
The World Policy of Germany,1890-1912. By Otto Hammann. Trans-
lated by Maude A. Huttman. London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd.,
1927. pp. 269.
In the translationof thesetwo books a signalservicehas been renderedto
English and Americanreaderswishingto keep abreast of recentstudies of
*The JOURNALassumesno responsibility
forthe viewsexpressedin signedor unsigned
book reviewsor notes.-ED.
458

This content downloaded from 170.140.26.180 on Sat, 16 Jan 2016 09:55:24 UTC
All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions