The authors met regularly for five years as members of the Study of Parliament Group, a small but influential and learned body consisting of academics and some officers of both Houses. The Group was brought together by the belief that parliamentary government in Britain is a valuable institution which should be studied more intensively with the object of preserving and improving it. The Group's evidence to the Select Committee on Procedure was of considerable importance. The twelve essays gathered here, each by an authority on his subject, sum up the changes in and evoke the intellectual atmosphere of the recent period of parliamentary reform, THE COMMONS IN TRANSITION is a searching and critical work; indeed some of the contributors do not spare each other.