23 DECEMBER 1949, page 30

Fiction

Men of Stones. By Rex Warner. (Bodley Head. 9s.) "Sprite-like, with a little strained ghost-face beneath a silver shock of hair, it seemed as if her long blue eyes had absorbed......

Shorter Notice

A History of Russian Literature. By D. S. Mirsky. Edited and Abridged by Francis J. Whitfield. (Routledge. 2 p.) THE two volumes of D. S. Mirsky's History of Russian Literature.......

Finance And Investment

By CUSTOS FOR most investors 1949 will be judged to have been a reasonably satisfactory year. Admittedly, the all-important question of correct timing of buying and selling has......