21 JANUARY 1949, page 32

Isaac Watts. By Arthur Paul Davis.- (independent Press....

A soon on Isaac Watts, synchronising with the bicentenary of the great hymn-writer's death, arouses hopeful expectations, which unfortunately do• not long survive a study of the......

Shorter Notices

British Authors. A grwentkth-Century Gallery. By Richard Church. (Longmans. 8s. 6d.) OF the fifty-two British authors whom Mr. Church explains in this book, the earliest is......

The Occupant Of The White House Submits As A Matter

of course to a medical regimen, no matter how good his physique. In the case of Franklin Roosevelt this had to be rigorous in the extreme. He went to Washington twelve years......

Finance And Investment

By CUSTOS WITH the new year only three weeks old, it is already becoming clear that the view expressed here that markets in 1949 would be even more selective than in 1948 will......