AFTERTHOUGHTS
hes ie Mg > ON THE CONSTITUTION, by S. Amery, second edition; Oxtord oe Press, English price 10/6. M R. AMERY’S four lectures, first published ‘in 1947, have been an ingredient in the knowledge and thinking of most people actively concerned with the British constitution since they made their appearance; and with justice, for they were the work of a man with long experience of the working of the institutions he described; a man, also, of critical power, not bemused by their sheer weight and intricacy. Certainly he was not well acquainted with the literature of Commonwealth development, but that lack he shared with most Englishmen, and it did not alter the value of his own personal contribution. This second edition contains 30 pages labelled "Postscript, 1953," which are a useful summary of the changes or tendencies of another six years. But the process of carpentering has not been good; the new timber has just been banged on and net dovetailed in, so that we have more than one contradictory statement, and the reader needs to get right to the end before he can be sure of anything. This is not really a good way to pro-
duce a second edition.
J.C.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 796, 22 October 1954, Page 14
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