Essays.
This slim volume of essays has the contemplative flavour often found in books written by doctors in their lesiure time. The essays are touched with a genuine love of natural......
Finance-public & Private.
[By OUR CITY EDITOR.] STOCK EXCHANGE TENDENCIES. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As anticipated, the Stock Exchange is already giving signs of healthier conditions as the......
The Nationalisation Of Credit. By Frank Lock. (simpkin,...
Co. 7s. 6d. net.) The progress of civilization may ultimately lead to the supersession of gold as a medium of international exchange, but at the present time Mr. Lock's......
Economics.
Currency and Credit Before and Since 1914. By Hubert Blake. (Effingham Wilson. 2s. 6d. net.) All new technical books must justify their existence by expressing some fresh idea......
" I Have A Profound Dislike For Biographies As They
are poured forth to-day," writes Mr. Rainsford in his introductory chapter. " Most of them have little value and some of them have no excuse. They are poor, sloppy stuff." So,......
Memoirs.
My Notebook at Home and Abroad. By Harry de Windt. (Chapman and Hall. 12s. 6d. net.) My Notebook at Home and Abroad. By Harry de Windt. (Chapman and Hall. 12s. 6d. net.) Mr. de......
Wool : The Empire Industry. By Frank Fox. (bradford :
Percy Lund, Humphries and Co., for the British Wool Federa- tion.) This attractive and well-written pamphlet—printed in a large and beautiful type which is, we believe, the new......
The Interest Of Mr. Nevill's Memories Lies Not In Their
lack of convention, which is negligible, but in their historical value. The world they deal with survives now only in memories. For the happy few in " Society " it must have......
Sir Thomas Middleton's Able New Book, In The Carnegie...
series, is at once an account of what was done during the War to increase the production of food at home and an examination of the fundamental question of Grass versus Tillage......
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