17 AUGUST 1889, Page 26

Commerce and Banking. By R. Bannister Turner. (Swan Son- nenschein

and Co.)—This is likely, as far as we can judge, to be a useful manual for commercial education. Probably a lad who can read and write well, knows French and German, and can add up with correctness and rapidity, will soon take to his work and succeed, though he begin without any technical knowledge. Still, such technical knowledge—the acquaintance, for instance, with the use and meaning of common commercial phrases and terms— cannot fail to be profitable.