12 MAY 1923, page 27

Finance—public & Private.

[By OUR CITY EDITOR.] MARKETS REFLECTING. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — There has been a pause in the prolonged and almost uninterrupted rise in Stock Exchange......

Light Fiction.

THE BIRD HOUSE MAN AND THE IDYLL OF TWIN FIRES. By Walter Prichard Eaton. (Hodder and Stoughton. 3s. 6d. net each.) A sound commercial brand of American simple life stories. THE......