SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Under this heading we notice such Books of the wok as have not been reserved for review in other forms.]
The Parliamentary Gazette (Howarth and Co., Is.) seems likely to be a useful publication. It is to be published three times during the Session of Parliament. The number before us relates the events of the Session up to the Easter Recess; a second will be published at Whitsuntide ; the third, dealing with the whole Session, when the House rises for the summer. It begins with a list of the House of Commons. The political opinions of each Member, with the record of his speeches (measured by columns) and his activities in divisions, are given ; and we have also the population and the electorate of the constituency which be represents, with the majority by which he was returned. Then we have "Parliament Day by Day" (February 13th— April 11th). Finally come alphabetical lists of the Privy Council and the two Houses, with other official information. Three hundred and twenty-seven Members have said nothing, and 29 have restricted the total amount of their utterances to some fraction of a column; 404 have asked questions, Mr. Ginnell, Nationalist Member for Westmeath, heading the list with 72. The Irish Members are high up in this list, Mr. J. B. Lonsdale (U.) coming second with 64; Mr. Field (N.) follows with 66, Mr. Sloan (U.) with 64, and Mr. Joyce (N.) with 62; Lieutenant Carlyon Bellaire carries the mantle of Mr. Gibson Bowles, though it shows a different colour and cut, for he has the creditable total of 49, beating Mr. Swift MacNeill by two ; Mr. Claude Hay (U.) has the sixth place; then follow three more Nationalists, Messrs. Delany, Duffy, and Farrell. Scotland, in the person of Mr. Weir, gets the twelfth place. In speeches, Mr. T. Chamberlain is first with 94 columns, Mr. Winston Churchill coming next with 89; then follow Messrs. Haldane 64, G. Wyndham 60, Arnold-Forster 59, Lloyd-George 55. But these numbers will be modified with the end of the Session. —Together with this we may mention the AB C of Parliamentary' Procedure, by W. M. Freeman and J. Carson Abbott (Butterworth
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