SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
groder thin heading tr. notice such Books qf tho reek as haw not hoi reoerred for mine in other forum] The House of Lords in the Reign of William ILL, by A. S. Turberville ; Anglo-Roman Relations, 1558-1565, by C. G, Bayne. (Clarendon Press. 8s. 6d. net each.)—These scholarly monographs belong to the new series of "Oxford Historical and Literary Studies," and are creditable to the University from which they originate. Mr. Bayne gives a connected account of the relations of England with Rome during the first seven years of Elizabeth's reign, and the efforts which were made by the Pope and his adherents to recover England to the Roman allegiance. Mr. Turberville deals with the House of Lords in one of the most interesting periods in its history, when it stood as the embodiment of a tradition of government which trenched upon numerous spheres. At the present moment many will read with interest the following extract from a poem, attributed to Defoe, which puts the ease of an injured public: against a House of Commons which no longer truly represents it For since in vain our hopes and fears,
Petitions, too, are vain, No remedy but this appears,
To pull the house about your ears,
And send you home again.
These are the nation's discontents, The causes are too true.
The ploughman now his choice repents, For though he values parliaments, He's not in love with you."
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