JAMES CORNISH & SONS, 297, HIGH HOLBORN, W.C. PREFACE. MANY works on the important subject of Banking have been published, and are before the Public, Theoretical works of much interest to Economists, and Legal works written and compiled for the Legal Profession: but generally speaking, these are rather too abstruse, or too expensive to attract the ordinary reader or the Bank Official. The aim of the accompanying volume is to supply an acknowledged deficiency, and to provide-in a form, simple, concise and inexpensive, and divested as far as possible of technicalities of expression-information of a practical and interesting description, useful and necessary, not only to Officers of Banks, but to the public in general. That the work may commend itself to junior officials, explanatory details, otherwise unnecessary, have been incorporated with the text. LONDON, Nov., 1881. |