31 JANUARY 1941, page 23

Fiction

The Friends of the People By Alfred Neumann. (Hutchinson. to& 6d.) MISS PHYLLIS BENTLEY can always be relied on to tell a ston. swiftly and coherently : one is never left not......

Sagittarius Rhyming. (cape. 58.)

IT is difficult to take a retrospective view of the war without shuddering at our political ineptitude during the preceding decade. A weaker vessel than " Sagittarius " might be......

Company Meeting

WILLIAMS DEACON'S BANK LIMITED STATEMENT BY THE CHAIRMAN, MR. G. P. DEWHURST IN view of existing conditions, and in place of his usual annual address, the following statement......

Shorter Notices Sixty Thousand People In The United...

bought Dr. Adler's rather earnest attempt to make rules for reading. It's an awful vision—perhaps a quarter of a. million Americans swotting up their reading. For reading,......

Nglish Lakeland. By Doreen Wallace. (botsford. 8s. 6d.)

liss DOREEN WALLACE knows the Lakes thoroughly, both as a onle and as a holiday-place, and she is a sound guide to the , umryside and to its basic activities, such as......

Forever Freedom. An Anthology Compiled By Josiah C....

Allan Nevins. (Pelican Books. 6d.) HE compilers' object has been to present a representative election, in prose and verse, of the idea of freedom as expressed Britain and the......