White Shepheard's Watched. By Pennethorne Hughes....
(Chatto and Windus. 10s. 6d.) MR. HUGHES was brought to Egypt by the fortunes of war and the B.B.C., and has now written a book about that much described but little understood......
A Short History Of English Literature. By B. Ifor Evans.
(Staples 7s. 6d.) IN this two-hundred-page view of the whole of English literature the bones are all there and in the right proportions - ; but the modelling of the flesh is......
Shorter Notices
An Essay on the Content of Education. By Eric James. (Harrap. 5s.) IN this short book of just over a hundred pages the High Master of Manchester Grammar School raises many of......
Finance And Investment
By CUSTOS As had seemed inevitable, ordinary share prices have now broken through the post-war low point established in the convertibility crisis of September, 1947. To those......