6 SEPTEMBER 1946, page 22

Fiction

The River. By Rumer Godden. (Michael Joseph. 7s. 6d.) From Such a Seed. By George Martelli. (Cape. 8s. 6d.) Billy Potter. By Doreen Wallace. (Collins. 8s. 6d.) The Thursday......

La Folle De Chaillot. By Jean Giraudoux. (bernard...

THERE it a bitter flavour in this play produced in Paris last year, the year of Giraudoux's death. Like his other plays it is a fantasy ; the characters are types, mostly......

Finance And Investment

By CUSTOS LONDON is doing its best to uphold its recently won reputation for imperturbability in face of external shocks, but Wail Street is putting it to a severe test. It is......

Shorter Notices

A COMPARISON of this new revised edition with the first, which appeared in 1926, shows how amply events have justified Sir Stanley Unwin's,teaching. Vastly as the practice of......