22 AUGUST 1958, page 25

A Matter Of Confidence

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT Jr would puzzle most people— from the academic to the simple- ton—to have to explain why shares have been rising on the Stock Exchange since February this......

Peter Swann's An Introduction To The Arts Of Japan...

45s.) is exactly the book for Which many visitors to the recent Japanese ex- hibition will be looking. It is lucid and thorough, and of general appeal—not unlike Gombrich's......

New Fiction

Beachworthy el The Brides of Solomon. By Geoffrey Household. (Michael Joseph, 13s. 6d.) I HAVE a friend who was educated at King's College, Cambridge, and is always zealous that......