5 DECEMBER 1947, page 28

Finance And Investment

By CUSTOS GONE are the days when by a mere waving of the Treasury wand gilt-edged prices could be set on a rising course. In its present mood of depression the market has paid......

Shorter Notice

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Fiction

THE chief problem of the historical novel lies in the dialogue • it is not so much a matter of whether or not to use obsolete and archaic words as of the " run " of the......