Fiction
Laugh at Polonius. By Jack Hilton. (Jonathan Cape. 7s. 6d.) IN The Sword and the Sickle, Mr. Mulk Raj Anand pursues s further the growth. in self-consciousness and social......
Miss Clay Has Been Working For Some Years Investigating The
career of this Anglo-Swiss painter who, born in Burgdorf near Berne in 1733, after a stay in France from 1765 to 1768 proceeded to England, where he spent the rest of his life.......
Shorter Notices
LONG years of newspaper work in Yugoslavia have made Mr. Harrison familiar with its scenery and its politics. His book, which is exceptionally well illustrated with photographs,......
Finance And Investment
By CUSTOS THOSE of us who had been prepared for a further modest dose direct taxation have been relieved by Sir Kingsley Wood's Budg While I do not share the Chancellor's......
The Modern Short Story. By H. E. Bates. (nelson. 7s.
6d.) THIS is an excellent little book, which describes the development of the English short story from Poe down to the present day, with chapters on the foreign writers--Gogol,......