22 APRIL 1949, page 28

Books For Children

Tales Out of School. By Geoffrey Trease. (Heinemann. 8s. 6d.) TILE juvenile fiction thqt fills the shops, Mr. Trease implies, is generally mediocre, The " comics " are worse.......

Finance And Investment

By CUSTOS THESE are puzzling days for the stock markets and for investors. Any rational interpretation of recent news would have suggested the likelihood of a fairly widespread......