30 JANUARY 1886, Page 22

CURRENT LITERATURE,

Dad's Parliamentary Companion for 1886 (Whittaker and Co)— It. is no wonder that this most valuable manual was not ready by the opening of Parliament. It was necessary to produce an entire renewal of Part III.,—the House of Commons,—giving the official names of the new constituencies, as well as the numbers polled by all the candidates. There are no less than 350 Members who did not sit in the last Parliament of whom some account had to be given. A very useful feature of the new issue is the table at p. 158, which is really a reproduction of that which we gave our readers after the return of the last election,—the election for the Orkneys,—was received, in our issue of December 26th.