24 MAY 1945, page 22

A Roof Over Your Head. By Bill Laughton. (the Pilot

Press. 7s. 6d.) THE doldrums of the 'thirties, when millions of men were on the dole, seem a long way behind us, but this book brings them back vividly. Written as a story, but......

Finance And Investment

Now that the gloves are off in the domestic political - field, markets are behaving very much as I predicted they would several weeks ago. Although there is no heavy volume of......

Shorter Notices

The Social Servant in the Making. By Elizabeth Macadam. (Alien and Unwin. 6s.) "AFTER the war there will return to civil life men and women who have had unusual opportunities of......

The Caravan Rolls On. By Henry Baerlein. (muller. 12s. 6d.)

MORE travellers' tales of an engaging kind fill Mr. Baerlein's new book. Incidents and stories, memory and invention combine to produce another series of brief pieces that are a......