Finance—public & Private
A Year's Investment Wrrn the passing of Christmas and the approach of the year-end, the investor is generally accredited by financial writers with the habit of reviewing his......
The Story Of Marie De Rohan, Duchess De Chevreuse, Lends
itself perfectly to the literary methods of the modern romantic historian. Connected by blood or marriage with the noblest houses of France, The !fatiguing Duchess (John......
Ruskin's Mind, With Its Versatile Interest In Art,...
and religion, was full of superficial inconsistencies. One has only to read his essay on War to realize the muddled thinking of which he was sometimes capable. Vet, beneath all......
We Regret That The History Of Playing Cards, Reviewed In
our issue of December 5th, was described as being published by Houghton Mifflin. The book is published by George Allen and Unwin.......
As Specimens Of The Very Best English Journalism The Essays
in More Lay Thoughts of a Dean, by Dean Inge (Putnam, 7s. Od.), are beyond praise. Various, frank, skilful, trenchant and lively, their appeal is infallible. " That I enjoyed......
The World Is Growing Full Of Rivieras, Each With Its
special virtue. Dalmatia, the New Riviera (by Geoffrey Rhodes ; Stanley Paul, 18s.) has a good many claims. An English pedestrian lately spent over four weeks there and failed......
Adverse Influences.
For the great majority of the investing public, 1931 has been an unfavourable, if not a disastrous year, prices of practically all securities having been seriously weakened by......
Anthologies May Be Said To Fall Roughly Into Two Classes,
those that follow the path of least resistance, the chronological path, and those that attempt some sort of arrangemeht according to a theory of ideas. The London Book of......
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