1 OCTOBER 1943, page 22

Fiction

Alvina Foster.. By Josephine Bell. (Longmans. 8s. 6d.) Sunset Over Soho. By Gladys Mitchell. (Michael Joseph. 8s. 6d.) Aesop. By A. D. Wintle. (Gollancz. 7s. 6c1.) IN a typed......

Saturnine. By Rayner Heppenstall. (seeker And Warburg. Xis.)

THE blurb declares that this book "constituted a land-mark in modern writing in the tradition of which Montherlant, Joyce and Celine are forerunners." This is an unfortunate and......

Shorter Notices

The American Political System. By D. 'X . Brogan. (Hamish Hamilton. 18s.) CLASSIC as Bryce's American Commonwealth is, it cannot by the nature of things hold the whole field......

Finance And Investment

By* CUSTOS IT is symptomatic of a market which has already enjoyed a very substantial rise that it should be subject to bouts of tiredness. This condition is clearly discernible......