It gradually became usual for each burgh to send two members; but, in 1619, the Convention of Royal Burghs reduced the number to one, except in the case of Edinburgh. Under the Protectorate, Scotland was represented by twenty members for the shires and ten for the burghs, which, with the exception of Edinburgh, were divided into nine groups, each returning one member. Edinburgh, alone, returned two representatives. At the union of the Parliaments in 1707, Scotland received forty-five members. The burghs, except Edinburgh, were divided into fourteen groups, returning one member each, and one member was allotted to Edinburgh. It is to be remembered that only Royal Burghs had any representation in Scotland up to 1832, except in so far as burghs of barony were represented by the county members, along with the other freeholders of the country. When the town of Cromarty ceased to be a Royal Burgh, in 1672, it was excised from the parliamentary records. Of the remaining thirty members, each shire, except six, returned a member each. These six were divided into three groups, Bute and Caithness, Clackmannan and Kinross, and Nairn and Cromarty. The two shires which each group contained were given the right to return a member to alternate parliaments, _e.g._ Bute, Clackmannan, and Nairn in 1708, and Caithness, Kinross, and Cromarty in 1710. From these facts, various interesting conclusions can be drawn. The meagre nature of the evidence prevents our making any inferences of a constitutional nature; but the rise of the small burghs on the East coast in the end of the fifteenth century, throws considerable light upon the economic history of Scotland. It is also suggestive that the burgh of Inverary was not represented till 1660, and Argyleshire not till 1628. But such matters as these belong rather to the domain of political history, and do not fall within our province. _Blackie & Son's The Warwick Library Publications of English Literature_ The Warwick Library of English Literature _General Editor_--PROFESSOR C. H. HERFORD, LITT.D. Each volume deals with the development in English literature of _some special literary form_, is illustrated by a series of representative specimens, slightly annotated, and preceded by a critical analytical introduction. "In the 'WARWICK LIBRARY' the editor has shown considerable skill in selecting for a special study by-ways of English literature, the developments of some special literary form. There is no other series which exactly covers the field here chosen, and some of the volumes are of considerable value to the student of English writing."--Literature. _In crown 8vo volumes, decorated cloth boards, white edges, price 3s. 6d. each_ English Pastorals. Edited by EDMUND K. CHAMBERS, B.A., formerly Scholar of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.