The week following the August Bank Holiday is very rarely indeed a busy or anxious time in the City. In the ordinary course of things, it serves as the easy-going prelude -- with but casual and inattentive visits eastward, and with only the most careless glances through the financial papers -- to the halcyon period of the real vacation. Men come to the City during this week, it is true, but their thoughts are elsewhere -- on the moors, on the blue sea, on the glacier or the fiord, or the pleasant German pine forests.

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