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Finance-public & Private.

[By OUR CITY EDITOR.] THE BUDGET CONSIDERATIONS AND MARKETS. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sni,,—Cheerfulness continues to be the predominant note on the Stock Exchange, and......

Biographies.

The Life of Sir Robert Moray. By Alexander Robertson. (Longmans and Co. 12s. 6d. net.) ' Alexander Robertson, the young scholar and poet, will be remembered by a large circle of......

Debrett's House Of Commons And The Judicial Bench, 1923....

by A. G. M. Hesilrige. (Dean. 20s. net.) This work is particularly welcome this year as most of the ordinary reference books, being published before Christmas, were unable to......

Psychology And Science.

The Omnipotent Self. By Paul Bousfield. (Regan Paul. 58. net. )—The Psychology of Self-Consciousness. By Julia Turner. (Same publisher. 6s. 6d. net.) If we were to attempt to......

Chemistry In The Service Of The Community. By Arnold Rowsby

Tankard. (Bonn. Is. net.) Mr. Tankard, who is the Public Analyst at Hull, in this pamphlet enumerates the chief functions of the chemist in such matters as the synthetic......

This Book Deals Chiefly In Technicalities Which We Are Not

competent to criticize. It may be said, however, that an excessive use of technical and scientific terms and an involved style make complexity doubly complex.......

Periodicals And Works Of Reference.

The Burlington Magazine. Mr. H. S. Ede has contributed to the March issue an extremely interesting and important article, admirably illustrated, on Jehamiet and Francois Clouet......

The Human Instincts In Business. By A. B. Fitt, Ma.,

Ph.D. (Melbourne and Sydney : the Lothian Book Publishing Co. Pty., Ltd. 3s. 6d.) This is not a profound treatise on a highly important subject, but a series of popular lectures......

The Advertiser's A B C For 1923. (t. B. Browne,

Limited.) The thirty-seventh issue of this well-known and elaborate guide to the world's Press. In the introductory pages are articles on advertising and examples of successful......

Life And Work A Century Ago : An Outline Of

the Career of Sir John Soane, R.A., F.R.S., F.S.A. By Arthur T. Bolton, F.S.A., F.R.I.B.A., Soane Medallist, Curator of the Sir John Soane Museum. Soane Museum Publication, No.......

Conception Control. By Lady Barrett. (murray. 2s. Net.)...

sincere and reasonable arguments against the use of artificial contraceptives, rendered unconvincing through lack of evidence for fundamental assumptions.......