valuable. The following are worthy of perusal : "Payment of Members of Parliament," H. Hawken, 16 pp., London, 1892; "Payment of Members," James A. Duncan, M. P., 8 pp., London, 1892; "House of Lords," George Panton, 41 pp., London, 1882 (a defence of the House of Lords, not of great value); "The House of Lords; as it is, and as it should be," " Hinc Solon," 8 pp., London (against the Lords); "Peers or People: Which Shall Rule?" "Demos," 56 pp., Manchester, 1884 (against the Lords); "The House of Lords: Its History, Rights, and Uses," 59 pp., London, 1893 (a defence of the Lords); "Lords and Commons," A. B. Smith, 36 pp., 1894 (against the Lords); "The House of Lords," "A Commoner," 20 pp., London, 1894 (a mild defence of the Lords); "The Nation's Debt to the House of Lords," F. W. Worsey, 14 pp. (a defence of the Lords); "The House of Lords," Harold Spender, M. A., 46 pp., London, 1895 (largely made up of caricatures); "Why should Bishops Continue to sit in the House of Lords?" Geo. A. Denison (Vicar of East Brent), 37 pp., 1851 (against the sitting of Bishops); "Fifty Years of the House of Lords," reprinted from "Pall Mall Gazette," London, 1881 (against the Lords). Copies of reports of committees and Acts of Parliament and other public documents may be obtained from the Government Printers, Messrs. Eyre and Spottiswoode, East Harding Street, Fetter Lane, London, E. C. These documents are sometimes of great value. 24 INDEX ABBEY, WESTMINSTER, 17, 18, | Board of Trade, President of, 80. 20, 21. Abercromby, Lord, 189. Bright, John, 193. Brodrick, Rt. Hon. W. St. John, 79, 105, 129. Burns, John, 349. Aliens, in House of Commons, Bye-election, 239. 240. Anne, Queen, 30. Anson, Sir W. R., 5, 17, 38, 82, Appeal, Lords of, 171; salary, 172. BAGEHOT, WALTER, 30, 48, 53, Balfour, A. J., 72, 84, 85, 254. Bills, "hybrid," 310. public and private, 305. 177, 354. CABINET, origin and early devel- opment of, 59–67; importance |