6 JANUARY 1950, page 34

Finance And Investment

By CUSTOS APPROPRIATELY enough, the New Year has opened without any exuberance in the stock markets. This is election year, and although it is arguable that the basic facts of......

Personalia. By Rom Landau. (faber. 21s.) " Persona( Ia "

is a series of sketches of people whom the author has met and who have influenced him. He begins with a few pages on his childhood, and later there are brief statements about......

The Yellow Book. A Selection Compiled By Norman Denny....

Head. iss.) IT is hard to imagine now that the innocuous canary-coloured quarterly from which Mr. Denny has made his selection could have caused such a furore in 1894. Provoked......