16 DECEMBER 1949, page 30

Fiction

A Provincial Affair. By Francis Williams. (Heinemann. tos. 6a. Ceremony of Innocence. By Elizabeth Charlotte Webster. (( • ,r 93. 6d.) THAT nice people can or cannot be......

Shorter Notice The Cornhill Magazine : Winter 1949-so....

Peter Quennell. (John Murray. 2s. 6d.) THE disappearance of the London Mercury left a gap in the ranks of literary periodicals that has not yet been closed. This gap was......

Finance And Investment

By CUSTOS THE City, it seems, is not prepared at this stage to give man hostages to fortune. Any idea that the Labour defeat in Australia following so quickly on the heels of......