Finance—public & Private.
[BY OUR CITY EDITOR.] A WAVE OF DEPRESSION. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—A considerable fall in sterling as expressed in American currency, a severe slump in the......
History.
LEOPOLD I. OF BELGIUM : Secret Pages of European History. By Dr. Egon Caesar Corti. Translated by Joseph McCabe. (Fisher Unwin. 21s. net.) Leopold, the first King of Belgium,......
Fifty-third Annual Report Of The Deputy- Master And...
THE ROYAL MINT, 1922. (H.M. Stationery Office. 5s. net.) It is gratifying to notice that steps are being taken to attain a higher level of artistic merit in the production of......
The Alliance Of Hanover : A Study Of British Foreign
Policy in the Last Years of George I. By James Frederick Chance, M.A. (John Murray. 21s.) This volume is addressed, not so much to students of history as to the specialist in......
On The Whole This General Sketch Of European History For
schools is more successful than most books of its kind, for it gets deeper below the surface than the doings of central governments. But it is not quite as good as we would have......
Literature And Language.
FRENCH LITERATURE DURING THE LAST HALF- CENTURY. By Pierre de Bacourt and J. W. Cunliffe. (Macmillan. 10s. 6d. not.) Bewildered readers who are uncertain of picking their way......
From The Gay Tradition Of Literary History To The Test
tube and crucible of critical bibliography is a far cry, but the panorama of Elizabethan literary life needs both. The -helter- skelter life of the playwright, Ben Jonson......
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