29 AUGUST 1941, page 28

Finance And Investment

By CUSTOS APART from a sudden revival in home railway stocks, markets are understandably quiet. Even in these days the usual holiday influences are at work in August, and the......

A Farm In Normandy. By Robert Henrey. (dent. I2s. 6d.)

MR. HENREY, who appears not to be a farmer, purchased a lam, in the Val d'Auge, which, amateurs of cooking will recall, breec, some of the best cooks and the finest chickens in......

Occupied Territory. By Polly Peabody. (cresset Press. 8s....

is far and away the best picture we have yet had of France since the capitulation. Miss Peabody combined an American' freedom to move about much as she wished with a mature......

Serial Map Service, August 1941. 25s. Per Annum.

SERIAL MAP SERVICE is to be congratulated on producing for August a couple of maps, with commentaries, that are up-to-date and at a glance help to answer certain questions that......

An Anthology Of German Poetry, 1880-1940. By Jethro...

Jos. 6d.) IT might seem rather hazardous in war-time to publish, in the .original, a collection of modern German poetry. But both Mr. Bithell and his publishers have ample......