28 AUGUST 1942, page 18

Shorter Notice

How the Russians Live. By Wright Miller. (Fabian Society. 6d.) WAR correspondents have to be facile in impressions and reactions as well as in style, and must necessarily be......

Finance And Investment

By CUSTOS NEWS from Russia has not brought any general decline in the stock markets, but has shifted the buying emphasis from equities back to gilt-edged. Pressure of funds......

Fiction

Women in Exile. By Jean Ross. (Eyre and Spottiswoode. 9s.) The Shadow and the Web. By Mary Merton. (Rpbert Hale. 9s. 6d.) The Children. By Nina Fedorova. (Collins. 9s. 6d.)......