16 OCTOBER 1942, page 20

Finance And Investment

By CUSTOS AFTER the recent rise it is not surprising that the stock markets should show signs of tiredness. In some groups yields have now been levered up into reasonably closer......

Fiction

The House of Mrs. Caroline. By C. M. Framer°. (Hodder and Stoughton. 8s. 6d.) A Time for Silence. By Andre Maurois. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6s. ) IT is now generally known that......

Shorter Notice

Life Among the English. By Rose Macaulay. (Collins. 4s. 6d.) BRILLIANT, entertaining, instructive—such adjectives present them- selves in advance in the case of a book by Miss......