29 JANUARY 1943, page 22

There Can Now Be No Complaint About The Quantity Of

the supply of text-books on American history which has met the recent demand. Here is a new, reasonably good, but not distinguished addition to the list. Mr. Ecclestone writes......

A Dictionary Of Abbreviations. By Eric Partridge. (allen...

7s. 6d.) THE abbreviations in use before the present war were numerous and puzzling enough to exhaust the average memory, but they. have since multiplied to such vast extent......

Finance And Investment

By CUSTOS AGAINST the background of good war news markets are surprisingly subdued. Most brokers are handling a fair volume of orders, but there is no runaway rise in prices,......