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Shorter Notices

Knotted String. By Harry Brearley. (Longmans. tog. 6d.) BENJAMIN FRANKLIN must inevitably be the yardstick for auto- biographies by self-made men : this book by " the man who......

England's Purpose. By Dorothy Crisp. (rich And Cowan. .5s.)

INTO a hotch-potch of half-truths quotations are flung, chopped. up and various, regardless of the general standpoint of those responsible for them: there is Beverley Baxter and......

Fiction

WRITING on the eve of a New Year, a fiction reviewer may be pardoned perhaps for a partial lapse from the particular to the general. Book buying is on the increase, but the book......

Finance And Investment

By CUSTOS MOST investors have reason to think well of 1941. Another year of war's vicissitudes has meant some casualties in the Stock Exchange list—the Far Eastern group has......