16 SEPTEMBER 1949, page 30

Finance And Investment

By CUSTOS INVESTORS' first reactions to the outcome of the Washington con- ference have been appropriately cautious. No hats have been thrown in the air and, apart from some......

Fiction

The Dark Peninsula. By Ernest Frost. (Lehmann. 9s. 6d.) SOME miscellaneous " don'ts," if I may, for novelists:— Don't be possessed by ideas, even by unspoken ideas. To adapt a......

Shorter Notice

Popular Art in the United States. By Erwin 0. Christensen. (King Penguin Books. 2s. 6d.) MR. CHRISTENSEN briefly discusses the various European origins of American popular art......