12 DECEMBER 1925, page 35

The Main Currents Of Social And Industrial

CHANGE, 1870 - 1924. By T. G. Williams. (Pitman and Sons. 5s. net.) HERE is an attempt to record the progress made in this co untry during the past half-century in every branch......

Coleridge At Highgate. By Lucy Eleanor Watson. (longman....

net.) -111as. WATSON is a grand-daughter of Mrs. Gillman who, with her husband, received Coleridge into their home at No. 3, The Grove, Highgate, and kept him, more as a son......

Fiction

A BOOK IN ITS SEASON A Warning to the Curious, and Other Ghost Stories. By M. R. James. (Arnold. 5s. net.) THE dealer in sprites and goblins continues to be welcome and well......

Finance-public And Private

THE NEW BANK RATE BY ARTHUR W. KIDDY. LAST week's rise in the Bank Rate from 4 to 5 per cent. has met with more approval than usually follows upon an advance in the Official......