24 OCTOBER 1947, page 26

Finance And Investment

By CUSTOS FROM the purely City standpoint the King's Speech has brought no surprises. Iron and steel nationalisation is postponed—but not yet abandoned—the gas indusry is to......

Fiction

The House by the Sea. By Jon Godden. (Michael Joseph. 9s. 6d.) Two satirists—one English and one American—and a romantic story- teller should be enough to satisfy the most......