4 JANUARY 1946, page 27

Shorter Notices Two Acres And Freedom. By J. 0. Baker.

(Gifford. 7s. ed.) THE purpose of Mr. Baker's book is wholly admirable. Prompted by the large number of men (mainly in the Forces) whom he has heard declare that, after the war,......

Finance And Investment

— By CUSTOS AT the beginning of a new year investors must find themselves more puzzled than ever by the market prospect. On the one hand, the profits of many sections of British......

' Fiction

Batu Khan. By V. Yan, translated by Lionel Erskine .Britton. (Hutchinson. 12s. 6d.) DURING 1945 there were a great many novels written in the ponderous and deeply significant......

Give Back My Rivers And Hills! By I. Feng. Translated

by Innes Jackson. (Macmillan. 8s. 6d.) MR. FENG, one of the comparatively few young Chinese intellectuals to go on active service with a field formation, was attached in a semi-......