HUGO GROTIUS, one of the greatest jurists of modern times, was born at Delft, in the Netherlands, April 10th, 1583. His great work, “De Jure Belli et Pacis,” which founded the science of international law, appeared in 1625. He is now chiefly remembered by it, but he wrote many other works of law and theology as well as poems and tragedies. He was no exception to the rule under which greatness must expect persecution. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for political reasons in 1619, but he escaped two years later and, taking refuge in Sweden, was treated with great respect. From 1635 to 1645, he represented the king of Sweden as embassador at the court of France, dying August 28th of the latter year. His work on “The Law of War and Peace” shows profound learning and a strong faculty of analysis which carries him almost to the central principle of civilization,—that it is the fundamental right of every man to be allowed undisturbed to express all the goodness he has in him and that the same right is fundamental with all communities and countries.