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Finance And Investment

By CUSTOS In so far as the inactivity in the stock markets is attributable to the counter-attractions of the Wings For Victory weeks, there should be some improvement in......

The Microcosm Of London. By John Summerson.--elizabethan...

Winter.—Fashions and Fashion Plates- 1800-1900. By James Laver.—British Shells. By F. Martin Duncan. (Penguin Books Ltd. 2s.) PUBLICATION of the King Penguin Series was......

The Russians. By Albert Rhys Williams. (harrap. 75. 6d.)

IF Mr. Williams possessed mental calibre to match his opportunities he could have written a first-class book. He has travelled in post- revolutionary Russia a good deal more......