The Stock Exchange ()pia Intelligewer, 1900. Edited by the Secretary
of the Share and Loan Department. (Spottiswoode and Co. 60s.)—This volume, the eighteenth annual issue, gives two articles specially suited to the time. In one the finances of Crown Colonies are discussed. The other discusses Company Law,—as it is, we may say, and not as it should be. These are specialities. A table of the " National Debts of the World" is a regular item, and is now peculiarly interesting. Great Britain shows a decrease in the decade 1888-1898 of £62,000,000, the United States of £20.000,000 ; France an increase of £36,000,000, and Russia of .£246,000,000. These two allies will hesitate, we imagine, before they run up another war-bill. The volume is increased in bulk by more than a hundred pages.—The Annual Charities Register and Digest, with an Introduction by C. S. Loch (Longmans and Co., 4a.), is the official publication of the Charity Organisation Society. We have no doubt but that any one who intends to bestow his alms through the medium of a society cannot do better than consult this book. That such gifts, how- ever large and well bestowed, do not exhaust the obligations of charity, can hardly be doubted. But here, also, he will find the principles laid down in these pages of much use.
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