13 JANUARY 1950, page 26

Short Stories

The Alabaster Hand and Other Ghost Stories. By A. N. L. Munby. (Dobson. Ss. 6d.) IF the present-day short story is less uniformly defined than it was when Chekhov, Maupassant,......

Finance And Investment

By CUSTOS CONDEMNED to another six weeks of waiting for the political show- down the City can only make the comment: "It might have been worse." It might, indeed, for if polling......

Shorter Notices

Gauguin. Introduction and Notes by Herbert Read. Venetian Paintings. Introduction and Notes by W. G. Constable. (The Faber Gallery. THE best of this bunch of coloured books, and......