DEAR EDITOR:

Will you please explain in the next issue of THE GREAT ROUND
WORLD who are eligible to seats in the House of Lords and in
the House of Commons? By thus doing you will greatly oblige
one who is very much interested in your paper.


Respectfully yours,
N.R.
MORRISTOWN, N.J.


DEAR FRIEND:

The House of Peers (or House of Lords) is composed of all the peers of
the United Kingdom, the representative Scottish peers, the Irish
representative peers, and the lords spiritual.

A peer is the holder of one of the five degrees of nobility,--duke,
marquis, earl, viscount, or baron. These men have their seats in the
House of Lords by right of birth, and take possession of them when they
come of age.

The House of Peers takes its origin from the body of lords and barons
who were summoned to the king's councils in olden times. Besides the
peers who sit in the House of Lords by right, and who are distinguished
as the lords temporal, there are twenty-six other lords who also form a