10 MAY 1924, page 22

Financial Notes.

What may be termed the spirit of anti-bank amalgama- tions is in the air, and I doubt if it would be easy now- adays to get Treasury consent to a banking fusion involv- ing any......

Finance-public & Private.

[BY OUR CITY EDITOR.] GENERAL OPTIMISM. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sni,—Optimism has been the prevailing note in the Markets during the past week. Actual speculative......

Sdcial Struggles In The Middle Ages. By M. Beer. Translated

by H. J. Stenning and revised by the author. (Parsons. 6e. net.) The nature of this book, the second volume of a series of five to be devoted to " A General History of Socialism......

Herr Wiedenfeld Was For A Year The German Representative At

Moscow, so that he has written his book from personal observation. He takes the view that no class in Russia wants another revolution. It is easy to believe that, and we must......

Crotchets. By Percy A: Scholes. (john Lane. 7s. M. Nat.)

Musical criticism may consist of disguised platitudes or fashionable jargon, and the problem of writing for a hetero- geneous public admits no other easy solution. Mr. Percy......