The CrOWR and its Advisers. By Alex. C. Ewald. (Blackwood.)—
This volume consists of four lectures dealing with the several subjects ef "The Queen," "The Ministry," The House of Lords," "The Corn. mons," and delivered, the author tells us, "to various audiences of Conservative working-men, both in London and the country." Ex- cepting a few jokes, which, very possibly, the manner of the lecturer may have made entertaining to his listeners, but which seem to us exceedingly dreary, the book is readable enough. Lectures given at the
instance of the "National Union of Conservative Associations " to Con- servative working-men have, of coarse, a certain tone about them with which we do not always feel in harmony, but we have noticed nothing that goes beyond the limits of moderation and good-sense. And the greater part of the volume is occupied with matter which is altogether neutral, the functions actually discharged in the State by various personages and assemblies, methods of business, &c. With these the author is evidently familiar, and though on any one of his subjects it would not be difficult to find a book of a superior kind,—there is Mr. Palgrave's book, for instance, about the House of Commons,—yet, on the whole, it gives a great amount of useful information in a convenient shape.
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