The Assembled Commons, 1836, professes to give the particulars of
the family, political opinions, and influence of every Member of the Lower House: it is rather larger than the Parliamentary Companion, but does not contain half the matter of that useful publication. Upon turning to several names, we find that the same matter, in some instances almost verbatim, is to be found in the Companion ; but there are also a number of particulars, relating principally, we think, to Irish Members, which we have not seen elsewhere. Therefore, although if we had to choose a pocket-book of reference we should not hesitate to prefer the Companion, yet we recommend any persons interested in ascer- taining who and what their Representatives really are, to pur- chase the Assembled Commons. It is an elegant little volume, and is published by CHUKTON, A new edition of Mr. Mosses Parliamentary Guide has been sent to us by Messrs. BAILY. It would be more complete in the department of the House of Lords than any similar publica- tion which we have seen, if it gave an account of the Church patronage of the Peers, according to the plan of the Companion. As regards the House of Commons, it does not supply much novel information ; but there are tables of the Boroughs enfran- chised and disfranchised by the Reform Act, of Members who lost their seats (and have not regained them) by the operation of that Act, of the persons who have filled distinguished offices in the State, and other matters, which make the Guide perhaps the most complete work of the kind. But, though in every part of it concise- ness seems to have been studied, the result is a volume almost twice the size of the Companion: this is an important drawback (if an increase of bulk may be called a drawback) in a pocket-book.
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