A full discussion of the topics dealt with in the last
paragraph of this letter may be found in my _Elements of
Jurisprudence_, edit. xii., pp. 409-425. A translation, by
Professor Nys, of the chapter in which those pages occur, as it
stood in edit. i., appeared in the _Revue de Droit
International_, t. xii., pp. 565, &c.




CHAPTER IV

CONVENTIONS AND LEGISLATION


Not a few International Conventions necessitate, before they
can be ratified, in order that their provisions may be carried
into effect, a certain amount of municipal legislation.

The letters which follow are concerned with some measures
introduced into the British Parliament for this purpose,
relating respectively to Naval Prize, to the Geneva Convention
of 1906, and to Conventions signed at The Hague Peace
Conference of 1907. It is with criticisms of Bills dealing with
the last-mentioned topic that this chapter is mainly occupied.


GOVERNMENT BILLS AND INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS

Sir,--You have already allowed me to point out how singularly