26 AUGUST 1949, page 26

Finance And Investment

By CUSTOS Watt less than a fortnight left before the opening of the financi3' conference in Washington it is not surprising that business on the Stock Exchange is at a low ebb.......

The Way To Be Happy. By Lawrence Gould. (gollanez. 6s.)

MR. GOULD is a consulting psychologist in New York, and this book has a breezy American atmosphere which may discourage some readers. Its complete materialism based on Freud may......

Shorter Notices

Mon of the contents of The Statesman's Year-Book are always accord- ing to plan. It covers the world country by country, giving under each head all the details, statistical and......

Debussy. By Rollo H. Myers. (duckworth. 4s. 6d.)

IN the 120 pages of this small book Mr. Myers contrives to pack all that the average concert-goer needs to know about Debussy and his music and to give a very fair impression of......