7 JUNE 1924, page 24

Finance-public & Private.

[BY OUR CITY EDITOR.] DEBT REDEMPTION AND COMMON SENSE.- [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The City has a way of pretty accurately sizing up our various statesmen—or should......

Beyond The Horizon, And Gold: Two Plays. By Eugene O'neill.

(C.ip1•. 7s. 6d. net.) In these two plays Mr. O'Neill's genius seems to be mainly theatrical, with little relationship to significant drama. With a marvellous eye for a stage......

Scctal Life In Stuart England. By Mary Coate. (methuen. 6s.

net.) SCCTAL LIFE IN STUART ENGLAND. By Mary Coate. (Methuen. 6s. net.) Whether by reason of politics, Bodley, or Clarendon, the seventeenth century seems to belong to Oxford.......

Shorter Notices.

If from among the numerous illustrations in this book one's chief pleasure is in the examples of fifteenth-century German and Flemish work, it is not because contemporary......