British Funds Firm.
Not the least striking feature of markets, having regard to all the circumstances, has been the material improvement in British Funds and kindred securities. This is the more......
Financial Notes
[We regret-that owing to pressure of space in connexion with our Aberdare Fund Mr. Kiddy's usual financial article does not appear in the SPECTATOR this week.] 13ETTER MARKETS.......
Ford Motor Sharks.
So far as the industrial and speculative markets are concerned, there is little doubt that the result of the Ford Motor flotation has been to give a stimulus to the speculative......
All Who Are Going Ski-ing This -year Will Want To
read Mr. Dahinden's The Art of Ski-ing (Faber and Gwyer, 12s. 6d.). The book is beautifully printed and produced, with hundreds of illustrations, great and small. Mr. Dahinden......
" The' Nightingale Of The Garden' Of Shiraz" Burst Into
full- throated song in 1258. Six hundred and thirty years later, Sir Richard' Burton brought back to us some sound and scent of that " time of the dominion of roses " by......
Though Germans Invented Printing, It Is Generally Held...
century German books are less beautiful, on the whole, than the early products of Italian and French presses. Mr., Stanley Morison would not accept this contention, and he has......
The Greek Loan.
In contrast to the extraordinary success of the Ford issue must be set the poor response given to the Greek Loan. At the same time, there is nothing inconsistent in the two......
The Ainerican Author Of Fothunting Recollections, By J....
(Lippincott, 21s.), writes of fOxhunting, in Pennsylvania, and principally of the sport shown by the Radnor- pack. These journals serve to reveal that .England is not the only......
General Knowledge Questions
OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Miss G. Pitt,_ 8 Wyndham Crescent, N. 19, for the following :- Questions on......