10 JANUARY 1925, page 22

Fiction

PROUST II. PERHAPS " aphorism " is too narrow a word for the type of judgment in which Proust excels ; for his judgments arc certainly, in a manner, distilled from experience.......

Finance-p[jblic And Private

INTER-ALLIED DEBTS 'To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — The year has not advanced far before two of the important factors I referred to when outlining the prospects for 1925......

The Dogs Of Want. By Lucas Biala. (i;eutchinson. 7s. 6d.)

Denison Fisher is trying to take refuge from "the dogs of want," which have followed him since the War, in a marriage with Marie Louise Syme, to whom the War has left pleasanter......