6 APRIL 1907, Page 28

The Irish Parliament of 1775. Edited by William Hunt, D.Litt.

(Longmans and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—A manuscript in the possession of Mr. Vincent Scully gives an alphabetical list of the Members of both Houses of Parliament, with personal details, which are seldom of a creditable kind. Dr. Hunt has prefixed an introduc- tion, in which he describes the regime of the time. It is a shocking story ; but then, as the editor remarks, "the standard generally accepted with respect to political purity was somewhat different in those days from what it is now." Local Legislatures even now leave much to be desired, and it is to be hoped that we shall be very careful about setting-them up.