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Finance And Investment By Custos How Will Markets React To

the election result? To this question, uppermost in the minds of investors, the answer will be known by the time these notes appear in print. To attempt a forecast so close to......

Fiction

The Winds of Fear. By Hodding Carter. (Gollancz. 8s. 6d.) Young 'Un. By Herbert Best. (Cape. 9s. 6d.) Through the Storm. By Philip Gibbs. (Hutchinson. 10s. 6d.) Folly Bridge. By......

Shorter Notices

Hostels for Old People. (Friends Book Centre. Is. 6d.) IN a population which, the statisticians tell us, is rapidly ageing, more thought must be given to the happiness and......

The Index Of Vol. 174 Of "the Spectator" Is Now

READY. One shilling and sixpence should be enclosed with instructions and addressed to INDEX DEPT., " The Spectator," Ltd., 99 Gower Street, W.C.1,. England.......