The New Parliament, 1880. By William Saunders. (Cassell and Co.)—Mr.
Saunders discusses, from the Liberal point of view, what may be called the " ante-natal " history of the new Parliament. He begins with the Water Bill of the late Government, and exposes the strange miscalculations and fallacies on which it was founded. From the Water Bill he proceeds to Lord Beaconsfield's Manifesto, and to the Budget of Sir Stafford Northcote. Then follow the addresses of the party leaders, extracts from the principal speeches made during the progress of the election, a chapter on crotchets which exposes with some force the criticisms of a " Whig" contemporary, and the history of the formation of the new Cabinet, with sundry miscellanea re- lating to the subject. " Biographies of New Members " and a com- plete list of the House occupy eighty pages, and finally we have, in an appendix, the figures of the polling at the two elections, of 1880' and 1874.
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