The Extra - Parliamentary Hansard. Vol. I. (Wyman and Son.)—This
volume is intended to supplement the Parlia- mentary record of politics. We cannot do better than quote the description given on the title-page. It contains, then, a "Selection of Speeches made by Public Men Outside Parliament," "Letters of Public Men appearing in the Press," "Resolutions and Manifestoes," and a "Record of By-Elections." There is a copious index, a necessity, we may remark in passing, to such a work, and largely determining its usefulness, and a precis of the chief speeches and letters. We must resist the temptation of enlarging on the hundred-and-one topics which occur as we turn over the pages of this volume. But does Sir H. Campbell- Bannerman still think as he thought last November, that there has been no proof of an attempt to overtlYrow the British power in South Africa ? And, as a general principle, which does he think the "first duty of a Government," to keep us out of a war, or to guard the rights and perform the duties of the Empire ?
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