18 OCTOBER 1940, page 26

Finance And Investment

By CUSTOS STOCK markets are better. That is the outstanding fact in th e City. This time the rise has embraced not merely gilt - edged and kindred stocks but a wide selection of......

The Storm Breaks. By Frederick T. Birchall. (hale. 12s. 6d.)

" FOR the last eight years," Mr. Birchall writes, " I have had a front seat at the greatest show in history." Those front seats must have been uncomfortably packed. We have had......

Animal, Vegetable And South Kensington. A Book Of...

Nicolas Bentley. (Methuen. 5s.) HUGE girls with hockey sticks, retired generals with voices, elderly ladies with astonishing hats and bits of fur—perhaps South Kensington......

War Time Services

for duration, offered by Firm established in West End, to companies, societies and individuals having to restrict, close down or move from London : particularly company......

At The Age Of Seven Osa Met Martin (the Familiarity

may be forgiven, for this autobiography is nothing if not familiar): he took her photograph for ten cents in a studio in Kansas. It was the right opening to a career of many......