16 JANUARY 1948, page 28

Finance And Investment

By CUSTOS AFTER the somewhat light-hearted optimism of the opening days of the year markets have developed a more cautious mood. While there is no denying the abundance of money......

This Book Of Twenty-one Short Stories By A Young South

African should find an English publisher, for Mr. Bosman, who (it seems) published his first novel last year, is a writer of quite unusual evocative power. Not since Olive......

A Family Chronicle

John Fergusson, 1727-1750. By James Fergusson. (Cape. 10s. 6d.) Jamas FERGUSSON is perhaps best known as the editor of an anthology of Scots verse which seeks to demonstrate......

Shorter Notices

THIS agreeable and convenient edition of the well-known Prayers and Meditations will arouse mingled feelings in Johnsonians. Dr. Trueblood argues with some force that the......