12 APRIL 1945, page 22

Finance And Investment

By CUSTOS GONE are the days when home railway stockholders drew fresh encouragement from figures showing that the Treasury was reaping a handsome profit out of its war-time......

Shorter Notices

Pacifism and Conscientious Objection. By G. C Field. (Cambridge University Press 3s. 6d.) THIS latest addition to Sir Ernest Barker's " Current Problem " series is in every way......

Northern Escort. By Lieutenant-commander J. E. Taylor,...

Unwin. 6s.) IT is impossible to read this book without recalling C. S. Forester's The Ship. Lieutenant-Commander Taylor describes the passage of a convoy to Murmansk by the same......

Fiction

Odd Man Out. By F. L. Green. (Michael Joseph. 9s. 6d.) Descent from Nowhere. By Reyner Barton. (Chapman and Hall. 8s. 6d.) The Steep Ascent. By Anne Morrow Lindbergh. (Chatto......