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Shorter Notices

Find, Fix and Strike. By Lieut.-Commander Terence Horsley, R.N.V.R. (Eyre and Spottiswoode. 9s.) THERE is no doubt of the author's object in writing this book ; it is to throw......

Finance And Investment

By CUSTOS IN framing his first Budget Sir John Anderson had a great oppor- tunity to leave well alone and has been strong-minded enough to seize it. Without turning the taxation......

The Age Of Catherine De Medici. By J. E. Neale.

(Cape. 6s.) WHEN Arthur Young was visiting the castles of the Loire not long before the French Revolution, he observed that the leaders of the French Wars of Religion " could......

Literature And Authorship In New Zealand. By Noel Mulgan....

Books. (Allen-and Unwin. 2g.) THE sense of exile—the excitement and nostalgia of the up-rooted- may have goaded into greatness such writers as Joyce or Henry James. On the......