6 AUGUST 1948, page 28

Plays That Misfire

Seed of Adam. By Charles Williams. (Oxford University Press. 6s.) MR. O'NEILL seems bent on the pursuit of ugliness and squalor for their own sake. His play is a study of the......

Finance And Investment

By CUSTOS IT is odd but true that only after a lapse of three months Sir Stafford Cripps' Budget has begun to produce the results on the Stock Exchange normally associated with......

Shorter Notice

Nights at the Opera. By Barbara McFadyean and Spilce Hughes. (Pilot Press. 12s. 6d.) DEDICATED " to the men who served in the C.M.F.", this is a guide- book to fourteen of the......