19 NOVEMBER 1943, page 22

A Picture Book. By Frank O'connor. Illustrated By...

(Curda Press. zos.) Now that Ireland or Eire is inaccessible to most of us, we are able to prize nearer their true value the beautiful productions of the Cuala Press, of which......

Shorter Notices

Double Lives. An Autobiography by William Plomer. (Cape. 95. 6d.) WILLIAM PLOMER, born in 1903, in the interim between the two world wars quickly emerged as the most versatile......

The National Ballet. By Arnold L. Haskell. (a. And C.

Black. Kis. 6d.) Robert Helpmann. By Caryl Brahms. kBat,sford. 18s.) SINCE the late Miss Lilian Baylis concentrated in 1931 at Sadler's Wells the scattered elements of the......

Finance And Investment

By:CUSTOS AFTER last week's shakeout, •which in some of the more volatile shares aniounted to a.minor slump, markets are again lifting their head. .At this stage it is too early......