5 JANUARY 1945, page 22

Finance And Investment

By CUSTOS FOR most investors 1944 was a reasonably satisfactory, if not a very exciting, year. A further modest rise—of the order of 2 per cent.— in gilt-edged stocks, carrying......

Shorter Notices

John Constable : The Hay Wain. By Sir Kenneth Clark. (Lund Humphries. 4s. 6d.) SIR KENNETH CLARK does two things. He explains how Constable's feeling and judgement related his......

African Trilogy. By Alan Moorehead (hamish Hamilton. 18s.)

THERE are three kinds of war correspondents—those whose work has little value at all, those who can write competent reports which satisfy at the time but have no permanent......

So Many Loves. By Leo Walmsley. (collins. 12s. 6d.)

Tins is a rare kind of autobiography—sedative without being dull. Very simply and unpretentiously Mr. Walmsley tells the story of his enthusiasms, from the age of about four......