27 DECEMBER 1946, Page 4

I am very glad to see that the Hansard Society

(r62, Buckingham Palace Road, S.W.i) has published a new and improved edition of Mr. Strathearn Gordon's admirable book, " Our Parliament "—im- proved in that it is now bound in cloth instead of paper, that it has a new index, sixteen pages of fresh matter, nine opposite illustrations together with a plan of the Palace of Westminster. Whether it is an improvement that it now costs 7s. 6d. instead of 6s. is a matter of opinion. But it is abundantly worth the higher figure. There is no book about Parliament comparable with it for accuracy and read- ability.

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