13 JANUARY 1894, Page 25

From being a quarterly magazine, The Investors' Review has be-

come a monthly, and, perhaps to signalise this new departure, its editor, Mr. A. J. Wilson, has published an article on "A Paralytic Bank of England." As this paper has caused a good deal of stir in commercial circles, it need not be specially commented on here. Mr. Wilson is certainly not a hopeful writer. While in this article he comments on "the isolated position of the Bank of England, its business ineptitudes, and its appalling absence of anything like consistent or even decently intelligent action," he tells us in another paper on "French Finance and Social Dis- order," that "some day, not now very far distant, this precarious social stability will be smashed to pieces, and the French people, broken-spirited, disintegrated, torn by evil passions, will have once more to begin the labour of evolving a new social order out chaos." Mr. Wilson is, however, a vigorous and fearless writer, and his "Hints and Memoranda for Investors" and "Company Notes," which are features of his magazine in its new as in its old form, deserve careful attention.