21 OCTOBER 1949, page 28

The Labourer's Lot

MR. FUSSELL'S book on the English labourer is a painstaking account of a subject on which he has read and written much. It is divided into three sections—" Tudor and Stuart......

Building Societies

Bricks and Mortar. By Sir Harold Bellman. (Hutchinson. 169.) IT is commonly said that everybody is the potential author of one book, the story of his own life. Men of affairs......

Short Stories

Character and Situation. By Christopher Sykes. (Collins. 8s. 6d.) The Pick of Today's Short Stories. Selected by John Pudney. (Odhams. 8s. 6d.) THE short stories in these two......