3 NOVEMBER 1923, page 40

Finance—public & Private.

[By OUR CITY EDITOR.] . . SIGNS OF IMPROVEMENT. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Last Friday afternoon the Stock Exchange was permitted a momentary glimpse of what might......

Financial Notes.

Congratulations to Mr. McKenna and to the Board of— to give the bank its old title for the last time—the London Joint City and Midland Bank for the common-sense decision just......

A History Of Art. By Dr. G. Carotti. (volume Iii.,

"Italian Art in the Middle Ages.") (Duckworth and Co. 8s. net.) The third volume of this series contains a remarkable amount of information considering the comparative cheapness......

Painter And Space. By Howard Russell Butler, M.a., M.f.a....

York : Charles Scribner's Sons. 21s. net.) The author states that he is concerned not with aesthetics but with the technique of expression. Although he considers . that the......

The Arts.

HOLBEIN'S " AMBASSADORS " : The Picture and the - Men. By Mary F. S. Hervey. (G. Bell. 5s.) Miss Hervey's well-known monograph on the great Holbein in the National Gallery has......