8 MAY 1942, page 18

Fiction

The Romance of a Nose. By Lord Berners. (Constable. 7$. 6d.) A Malayan Tragedy. By Johan Fabricius. (Heinemann. 85.6(1.) Barbarian. By Willard Price. (Heinemann. 13s. 6d.) The......

Shorter Notice

The Hope of Dawn and Other Poems. By Edwyn Bevan. (Allen and Unwin. 3s.) TODAY a writer in the traditional forms of poetry is unlikely to obtain his due measure of praise, for......

Finance And Inv Estme

By CUSTOS WHILE there is nothing approaching a general revival in the markets investors have been sufficiently impressed by the war to indulge their post-wit fancies in a modest......