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Students Of Canadian History Have Reason To Be Grateful To

the Champlain Society for re-editing the early travel books and printing documents hitherto inaccessible. Robertson's correspondence is of the second kind. Taken from the......

Finance And Investmen F

By CUSTOS MARKETS are back on the defensive, but they are putting up a tough resistance. News such as broke over the air on Tuesday morning was bound to impose an effective......

Chancellor On Free Sterling

At last we have an official declaration of faith in the vexed question of the fall in free sterling. Sir John Simon assures us—many of us were already convinced—that the recent......

Prudential Assets

If it is certain that insurance companies are facing unusually difficult problems it is also well to remember that they are remarkably well equipped to stand the strain. A......

The City Of London Livery Companies. By Bryan Pontifex....

6s.) The City of London Livery Companies. By Bryan Pontifex. (Methuen. 6s.) As a history of the London Guilds this little book needs revision. But as a summary view of their......

Shorter Notices

The Irish Dramatic Movement. By Una Ellis - Fermor. (Methuen. los. 6d.) THE Anglo-Irish theatre has certainly not lacked its com- mentators, but there was room for a systematic......

Hollywood Is The Place ! By Charles Landery. (dent. Los.

ed.) MR. LANDERY'S book is not about the reigning kings and queens of Los Angeles, but chiefly about the humbler studio employees—small-part actors, stand-ins, electricians, and......

This Admirable Quarto Is One Of The Best Of The

Phaidon Editions. All its illustrations are of fine quality, but what gives it its peculiar value are the clear detail reproductions, in particular those of the Sistine chapel......