Commercial Knowledge a Manual of Business Methods and Transactions (Classic Reprint)

Some of our foreign competitors have been fully alive to these considerations for several years, and have taken practical measures to remedy the defect, with very beneficial results to their trading interests. The writer has drawn freely on his own experience of commercial life, which extended over more than a quarter of a century, and he gratefully acknowledges the assistance he has received from business friends and acquaintances, with some of whom he was formerly associated. To Mr W. CH. Cross, solicitor, he is especially indebted for valuable notes on various legal enactments relating to commerce. He has obtained courteous permission for the introduction of extracts from the Times reports of Lord Rosebery sspeech at Wolverhampton; from the address of Lord Hillingdon at theB ankers Institute ;and from Colonel Hozier slecture on The Machinery of Lloyds. The editors of theE conomist and theS tatist have allowed him to reproduce important statistics from those journals. The secretaries of several of the leading Chambers of Commerce have kindly placed important communications at his disposal, and inquiries made of the large Dock Companies have been promptly answered. For valuable information obtained at the Foreign OflS ce his best thanks are due to H.M. Under-S ecretary of State for Foreign A ffairs. ALGERNON WARREN. May
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