13 AUGUST 1948, page 28

Finance /om Investment

By CUSTOS WITH holiday influences in full swing markets are now dominated by " professional" activities. That even the hardened operators are finding it hard to see their way is......

Shorter Notice

Judge Jeffreys. By H. Montgomery Hyde. (Butterworth. 21s.) THE re-issue of this admirable biography—" a book not only of great fascination but of permanent value, too," as Sir......

On The Road To Amsterdam. By 0. J. Beard. (independent

Press. is.) THE General Assembly of the World Council of Churches, which opens at Amsterdam on August 24th, may justly be regarded as the most important gathering of Christian......

Fiction

FEW who complain of the peevishness of a reviewer realise how desperately he longs to shout and cheer. Novels in fact often get a higher grading than they deserve for this very......