26 MARCH 1881, Page 21

Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench for 1881.

(Dean and Son.)—One of the best, if •not the best, of all these publi- cations, and the only illustrated ono. We have always found its information most accurate and full. The editor remarks this year, with a slight suspicion of satire in his voice, that there are a good many "arms of assumption," but still they are the arms forwarded to him. The number of members who bear no arms, however, in- creases somewhat rapidly,—a curious index of a change in the "house, and perhaps of a certain growth of common-sense. Why has Debrett :exchanged his red binding for blue ? It breaks the sots.