20 MAY 1949, page 36

Finance And Investment

By CUSTOS IT is difficult, in these days, to distinguish anything worthy of being described as an investment pattern in the stock markets. Gilt-edged, it is true, look firmly......

Concerning Handel Essays Bywilliam C. Smith. (cassell....

a collection of seven erudite essays, dealing with such sub- jects as early editions of Messiah and the Water Music, the authen- ticity of various portraits of the composer and......

This Somewhat Chaotic And Lengthy Survey Contains A Vast...

of information on matters of which the public is too ignorant. Mrs. Neville-Rolfe has helped to found, among other societies, the Eugenics Society, the British Social Hygiene......

Death Be Not Proud. By John Gunther. (hamish Hamilton. 7s.

6d.) BRITISH reserve may flinch a little at the project of describing, in minute detail, the long Illness and death of a much-loved only son. Occasionally this memoir is......

Keats, Shelley And Rome. Compiled By Neville Rogers....

7s. 6d.) I'm royalties from the sale of this attractive little miscellany of seventy-five pages are to be given to the Keats-Shelley Memorial in Rome, which alone is sufficient......

London For The Literary Pilgrim. By William Kent....

MR. WILLIAM KENT is an industrious compiler of books about London (" the great literary Mecca"); his knowledge is wide, he is anxious to share it, and he is properly disturbed......

Although Newsprint Is More Plentiful Now Than At Any Time

since pre-war days, it is still necessary to place a firm order with a bookstall manager or newsagent to ensure regular weekly delivery of THE SPECTATOR. Newsagents cannot......