6 AUGUST 1942, page 22

Finance And Investment

By CUSTOS THERE is still the seeming paradox of good markets in Throgmorton Street in face of far from good news from the war fronts, and so, I am convinced, it must continge.......

The Statesman's Year-book, 1942. (macmillan. 3os.)

Shorter Notice THE preparation of a volume like The Statesman's Year-Book at a time like the present is a perplexing as well as a laborious task, for conditions are changing......

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Financial Times. By Ronald Fraser. (Jonathan Cape. 8s. 6d.) Mrs. Morel. By M. H. Tiltman. (Hodder and Stoughton. Ss. 6d.) Our Little Town. By Adelaide Phillpotts. (Rich and......