Commander Stephen King-Hall's Hansard Society is a lively and active
body, and its publications are well calculated to interest the
apathetic elector in the procedure, the achievements and the vagaries of Parliament. In the latest issue of Parliamentary Affairs (4s.) a
vast amount of information is packed into a small space, most par- ticularly in the composite article in which the functions of the , Chairman of Committees, the Sergeant-at-Arms, the Speaker's Train- bearer (who is a great many things besides that), the Second Clerk Assistant, a Lobby Correspondent, a sub-editor of Hansard, a Doorkeeper, a Messenger, an Office Keeper, a Police Sergeant in the House, the Refreshment Manager and the Librarian describe lucidly what their several functions are and how they discharge them. They all seem more interesting than the average M.P. * *
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