1 MAY 1936, page 38

Finance

-Budget Afterthoughts As not infrequently happens, it is the afterthoughts whieli express more truly the considered view of the community with regard to the annual Budget. The......

A Foreigner Looks At Australia By Paul Staal This Book

(Jonathan Cape, 7s. 6d.) is interesting but super. ficial. The writer, who has been Consul-General of the Netherlands at Sydney, has compiled from other people's books a short......

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By Hesketh Pearson No life of Labouchere—gambler. amorist, diplomat, duellist, journalist, politician—eould be dull even if it were indifferently'' written. Actually Mr. Hesketh......

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By Mary Agnes Hamilton Newnham was Mrs. Hamilton's own college, but this pleasant little book (Faber and Faber, 5s.) is nat merely the graceful act of piety which a first glance......