5 JULY 1940, page 26

Fiction

AT a moment when brutality, cynicism and corruption bestride the world more arrogantly than ever in human history, it is well, and refreshing, to find time to read in those......

Shorter Notices

John Gay. By William Henry Irving. (Duke University Press. $3.50.) IT is doubtful whethei Gay is a figure important enough, or even substantial enough, to be the subject of a......

Finance And Investment

By CUSTOS EVEN in these critical days markets have not lost their capacity for quick recovery. Not only has it been possible to stop the rot in equities which threatened the......

The Banks For The People. By John Strachey. (gollancz. Is.

6d.) MR. STRACHEY has been unlucky ; this lively little manifesto is Sitzkrieg, not Blitzkrieg, literature ; and events both at home and abroad over the last few weeks have put......