Very welcome is the appearance of a new edition of this standard work, supplemented as it is by a third volume continuing the narrative to the year 1911. The work of May himself is so well known that no critical estimate of it is here required. First published in 1861—3, in two volumes, a third edition in three volumes was issued in 1871, which has since been repeatedly leprinted, but never before continued beyond 1860, except by a single chapter furnished to the third edition and covering the period between 1860 and 1870, In the volume which Mr. Holland has prepared, May's topical method of treatment—certainly the best method—has been continued, though, necessarily, some of the topics are different, or, where the same, receive relatively less extended treatment. Thus, in particular, the Crown receives very much briefer consideration than May had given it for the obvious reason that during the period which Holland covers the powers of this branch of the English Government have not substantially changed. The subjects to which Mr. Holland devotes separate chapters are Parliamentary Reform, Party, The Home Rule Movement, Religion and the State, Local Government After 1870, Reforms in the Civil Service, The Army, the Judicature, The Self-Governing Colonies Afcer 1860, and The Parliament Bill of 1911. The forty pages which aie given to this last subject furnish an exceptionally clear account of this important constioutional measure and of the circumstances leading up to its enactment.