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All About Investment, By Henry Lowenfeld. (Financial Review of Reviews.

55. net.)—The author of this volume not only supplies much information about various securities, but raises various questions which we do not feel disposed to argue. Hero is an example: Had the Government the right to reduce the interest on consels, with the alternative of paying off the holder, when the law compelled the said holder to invest his trust-money in Consols F—With this we may mention Railway Rates, by the late Joseph Horrocks (Swan Sonuenschein and Co., 21s. net). The book is described as "The Method of Calculating Equitable Rates and Charges for Merchandise Carried on Railways."