1 JULY 1949, page 34

Finance And Investment

By CUSTOS SOONER than most people predicted the known difficulties of the country's economic and financial position have assumed the pro- portions, in the public mind, of a......

Fiction

Winter Landscape. By Neville Brand. (Hale. 8s. 6d.) Just a Song•at Twilight. By John Lodwick (Heinemann. 9s. 6d.) IN these three novels there are deaths. The first, with its......

Shorter Notices

THE "woman's question" has become old-fashioned ; is vaguely taken as settled ; and yet there are still injustices, still sex barriers. Miss Haslett sums the position up as it......

The Author Of This Record-collector's Vade-mecum Is A...

psychology at Edinburgh University, and in his final chapter he neatly combines both his interests to give a short analysis of the record-collector's psychology. The history,......