11 MARCH 1949, page 32

Fiction

Sleep of the Pigeon. By Wallace Fowlie. (Harvill Press. 7s. 6d.) Sometime Never. By Ro ald Dahl. (Collins. 8s. 6d.) ONE of the few literary advances of recent years is the fact......

Finance And Investment

By CUSTOS FOR no very obvious reason—at least for no reasons that have not been obvious for many weeks—stock markets have begun to yield ground. What seems to have depressed......