Irish Unions

III. The Crown and the Ministry

1. The Crown: Legal Status and Privileges
2. The Powers of the Crown
3. The Importance and Strength of the Monarchy
4. Privy Council, Ministry, and Cabinet
5. The Executive Departments
6. The Cabinet: Composition and Character
7. The Cabinet in Action

IV. Parliament: The House of Commons

1. The House of Commons prior to 1832
2. Parliamentary Reform, 1832-1885
3. The Franchise and the Electoral Questions of To-day
4. Electoral Procedure and Regulations

V. Parliament: The House of Lords

1. Composition
2. The Reform of the Lords: the Question prior to 1909
3. The Question of the Lords, 1909-1911
4. The Parliament Act of 1911 and After

VI. Parliament, Organization, Functions, Procedure

1. The Assembling of the Chambers
2. Organization of the House of Commons
3. Organization of the House of Lords
4. Privileges of the Houses and of Members
5. The Functions of Parliament
6. General Aspects of Parliamentary Procedure
7. The Conduct of Business in the two Houses

VII. Political Parties

1. Parliamentarism and the Party System
2. Parties in the Later Eighteenth and Earlier Nineteenth Centuries
3. The Second Era of Whig [Liberal] Ascendancy, 1830-1874
4. The Second Era of Conservative Ascendancy, 1874-1905
5. The Liberal Revival
6. The Rule of the Liberals, 1906-1912
7. The Parties of To-day

VIII. Justice and Local Government

1. English Law
2. The Inferior Courts
3. The Higher Courts
4. Local Government to the Municipal Corporations Act, 1835
5. Local Government Reform, 1835-1912
6. Local and Central Government
7. Local Government To-day: Rural
8. Local Government To-day: Urban

PART II.—GERMANY

IX. The Empire and