A new Whitaker is always something of an event. Most
of the matter, of course—all the essential reference sections—goes on pretty much unchanged from year to year, but there is always some- thing fresh, and because fresh interesting. This time, for example— and it may be added that Whitaker is getting back to early publication ; this issue would have appeared before the New Year but for uncertainty about the General Election date—there is a new entry on the Council of Europe and its Strasbourg meeting. This time, too, increased space is given to Parliament, and the 45 pages devoted to that topic should be particularly useful between now and February 23rd. Incidentally the list of Prime Ministers, from Walpole to Attlee, is instructive. Walpole was the first Prime Minister to remain in the House of Commons, but eleven of the next thirteen were in the House of Lords. Per contra, no peer has been Prime-Minister since 1902, and none is now likely to be (though the present Lord Salisbury would make a very good one).
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