1 DECEMBER 1906, Page 14

We have received the eleventh edition of A Treatise on

the Law, Privileges, Proceedings, and Usage of Parliament, by Sir Thomas Erskine May, Edited by T. Lonsdale Webster (Books I.-II.) and William Edward Grey (Book III.) (W. Clowes and Sons, 45s.) The first edition appeared in 1844; the ninth (the last which appeared under the author's care) in 1883; the tenth in 1893, under the supervision of Sir Reginald Palgrave and Mr. A. Bonham-Carter. In 1844 there were fourteen Standing Orders ; in 1893 there were ninety-one. And the thirteen years that have passed since then have added to their number It should be mentioned that Mr. Webster is second clerk assistant ni the House of Commons, and that Mr. Grey is "of the Committee Office."