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Finance And Investment

By CUSTOS NEWS from the war fronts has scarcely been of the kind encourage the optimists in the stock markets, and nobody can surprised at the modest relapse in quotations.......

Miss Jean Burtqn's Biography Is Well-named, For Isabel...

that if she were a man, she would be Richard Burton, " but being only a woman, I would be Richard Burton's wife," and the book lives up to its title, for it does succeed in......

Shorter Notices

The Annual Register. Edited by Dr. M. Epstein. (Longmans. 42s.) THIS indispensable volume is a little slimmer than in the previous year, though there is no reduction in the......

Soviet Heroes. Edited By Ivor Montagu And Herbert...

Press. 2s, 6d.) Moscow Under Fire is yet another eye-witness account by o 1 Special Correspondent, and does not break away from " The Field. The two publications of the Pilot......

Fiction

Scene in Passing. By Robert Neumann. (Dent. 7s. 6d.) Stoughton. 8s. 6d.) Scene in Passing is no straightforward chronological résumé of past events, but a fable placed vaguely......