value and encourage, and of which Members of Parliament must
stand in wholesome dread. It is a plain, unvarnished record of what every re- presentative of the people has done, that is to say, it gives a list of the divisions which took place in the House during the Session of 1871, and then goes in alphabetical order through the M.P.'s, and tells us in how many divisions each man voted and from how many he was absent. From the summary of the whole we gather that the Hon. G. G. Glyn is the moat diligent of all the members. Ho was absent from one division only, out of a total of two hundred and seventy. Next comes the Irish Solicitor-General, who missed three ; then Mr. Bowring, who missed six. The fifth and sixth places in order of merit are occupied by two Conservatives, Messrs. Mellor and Dimsdale. At the end of the list come eight members, who were present at no divisions, Messrs. Bright and Childers, and Viscount Milton among Liberals, and Sir J. M. Strange, and Messrs. Butler- Johnstone, P. M. Hoare, and J. N. Dray, among Conservatives. Mr. Martin, the Nationalist, who, of course, abstained on principle, makes up the eight. Seven others voted less than ten times, Baron L. de Rothschild being among them, and ten more less than twenty, and in these again we find the other Rothschild. More than five hundred members were absent from more than half of the total number of divisions. We would suggest to Mr. Roberts that he would make his book complete, as a record of members' work, if he were to tell us what committees each member sat upon, and how long their sittings lasted. And could we have a supplement with the same information about the House of Lords ? That would be a quaint-looking document.
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