28 JULY 1950, page 28

Finance And Investment

By CUSTOS To the superficial onlooker the Stock Exchange now presents an odd spectacle. -While prices of existing securities drift downward there is still a keen demand for new......

Fiction

A Broken Engagement. By Betty Askwith. (Gollancz. 8s. 6d.) The Desert in the Bed. By Royston Morley. (Methuen. 9s. 6c1.) Such Darling Dodos. By Angus Wilson. (Secker and.......

Shorter Notice

NOT for nothing is Mr. Green the assistant librarian at Merton College, Oxford, where the ancient classics are chained to prevent their disappearing, and a ghost traditionally......