14 JANUARY 1949, page 30

The Phaidon Press : A Retrospect And Prospectus.

THE brochure issued to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the foundation of the Phaidon Press records an educational achieve- ment without parallel in contemporary......

America And Cosmic Man. By Wyndham Lewis. (nicholson And...

10s. 6c1.)_ MR. LEWIS begins the second part of his book with this sentence : " Up to now my feet have been firmly planted in history." Alas ! Mr. Lewis is wrong. All the merits......

Finance And Investment

By CUSTOS IT is good to see industry presenting a reasoned case well in advance of the Budget in support of the tax changes appropriate to the problems confronting the great......

William Law. A Study In Literary Craftsmanship. By Henri...

(Rockliff. 8s. 6d.) THis short study of the mystic of the early eighteenth century who had such an influence on the Wesley brothers is by a French student (whose English......