Debretes House of Commons and Judicial Bench. Compiled and edited
by Robert Henry Hair, LL.D. (Dean and Son.)—This useful publication, corrected up to February 14th, gives a short account (with armorial bearings when used) of all the Members of Parliament, and of the occupants of the Judicial Bench, a term in which not only the Judges of the Supreme Court, but County-Court Sedges, Recorders, do., are included, besides Metropolitan and Stipendiary Magistrates and Colonial Judges. An appendix supplies an explanation of "Technical Parliamentary Expressions." We may note that the number of Roman Catholic Members of Parliament is eighty-one. —The Liberal Year-Book, 1887. Edited by E. A. Judges. (Simpkin and Marahall.)—The editor "has made every effort to do justice to the views of all sections of the party," an unquestionably diffionit task, in which his success will be variously estimated. About the value and interest of the facto, however, which are here collected, there can be no doubt.
Among the books in which are gathered up the results of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition of last year, few will be more interest. jug than Reports on the Colonial Sections of the Exhibition. Edited by H. Trueman Wood. (Clones and Sons.)—The reports number twenty-three in all, and deal with a great variety of products and industrial. Minerals, meat, grain, fruits, sugar, wine, tobacco, cotton,
wool, are among the more important items. Looking through the report on "Wine," we see some interesting facts bearing on expendi- ture and returns. Fourteen acres of vineyard on the Hunter River (New South Wales) produce 2,000 gallons, sold on the spot at £400. The cost of cultivation is £112. A large vineyard (225 acres) in Victoria produces 50,000 gallons, giving at the same price £10,000, at a cost of £1,125. lathe same Colony, a small vineyard of fear acres, gives 2,000 gallons. This would represent £500 at a cost of 224. These balances look satisfactory. Mr. Clare Sewell Read writes an interesting report on "Dairy Products," and Mr. H. Pasteur on, " Coffee and Cocoa." But the book is fall of valuable matter from, beginning to end.
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