24 MARCH 1944, page 22

Finance And Investment

By CUSTOS FOR the activity or quietude of markets Stock Exchange men are seldom at a loss for an explanation. Rising prices bring out the now familiar arguments of weight of......

Peace-making, 1919. By Harold Nicolson. (constable. Los.)...

a new book. When it first appeared, in 1933, its merits were strongly emphasisedt in these columns. Merely to reprint it in 1944 would have been worth while, for most of the......

The Art Of Growing Old. By John Cowper Powys. (cape.

los. 6d.) Tins book brings to mind Dr. Johnson's claim that he was as good a judge of mutton as any sheep, with the converse it implies; does it help any, one wonders, in......