14 APRIL 1950, page 32

Shorter Notices

THROUGHOUT this year the Bunyan Meeting at Bedford is celebrating its tercentenary. What is now a united Baptist and Congregational institution was founded in 1650 by a group of......

New Novels

My Time, My Life. By George Camden. (Dent. 8s. 6d.) THERE is no relief greater than waking from a nightmare ; no horror to be compared with the nightmare from which there is no......

Finance And Investment

By CUSTOS IN face of the coming Budget stock markets have held up remark- ably well. The unexpectedly sharp improvement in the gold reserve has given a much-needed stimulus to......

Seven Across The Sahara. By Harold Ingrams. (murray. I Ss.)

Mosr colonial servants, when posted from London to the Gold Coast, would think twice before deciding to drive themselves there. They would think a good deal oftener than twice......