10 AUGUST 1944, page 22

Finance And Investment

By CUSTOS IF the progress of first-grade industrial ordinary shares, such Courtaulds, Imperial Chemicals and Imperial Tobacco ' has become a very pedestrian affair, some......

Fiction

SOME day no doubt, perhaps in a not very distant future, a su will be made of the English literary scene during the second w war. One of the most remarkable features of life in......

Shorter Notice

Choose Your Kitchen . By Adie Ballantyne. (Faber. 5s.) AFTER these years of making do with whatever we can get, this almost falls into the category of escapist literature:......