23 SEPTEMBER 1949, page 30

Shorter Notice

Tins handsome new volume of the Britannica Book of the Year, covering events throughout the world in 1948, is the first to be published in London for ten years, and its seven......

Finance And Investment

By CUSTOS DEVALUATION has come and only its timing and its scale have caused surprise. Logically, this gamble with the currency should have followed, not preceded, the measures......

Fiction

Swing, Brother, Swing. By Ngaio Marsh. (Collins. 9s. 6d.) I HAVE admired and enjoyed the work of Miss Ngaio Marsh for a long time now, but, owing to a distinction commonly made......