15 DECEMBER 1923, page 30

Finance-public & Private.

[BY OUR CITY EDITOR.] AFTER THE ELECTION. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Inasmuch as the General Election has utterly confounded all expectations on the Stock Exchange,......

An Indian Novel In Which The Principal Figure Is A

Rajah educated in England. The effects of his upbringing are not those usually depicted by writers of Anglo-Indian fiction, but leave the Rajah with a confirmed belief in the......

The Forge In The Forest. By Charles G. D. Roberts.

(Dent. 4s. 6d. net.) The Forge in the Forest is a thrilling story—thrilling in the manner of Stevenson, with whom the author has a decided kinship, though his work is entirely......

The End Of The Lives Of Selfish And Self-centred People

is a somewhat depressing theme, and Mr. Maxwell alienates his readers by beginning his novel with an account of the senility of his two principal characters. It may, however, be......

An Entertaining Book Concerned With The 'nineties Of The...

century, now so popular in fiction. The Torch is a weekly newspaper, and the vicissitudes which befall both paper and staff are entertainingly described.......

After Harvest. By Charles Fielding Marsh. (allen And...

6d.) 14Ir. Marsh is an author who deserves commendation, if only for his industry and his honourable ambition. In conception and treatment After Harvest is distinctly above the......

The Runaway. By M E. Francis. (hutchinson. 7s. 6d. Net.)

The novels of Mrs. Francis have so secure a place in our country fiction that it seems impertinent to blame and almost invidious to praise. Therefore it is with timidity that......