Mathieson's Handbook for Investors, 1904. (C. Mathieson and Sons. 2s.
6d. net.)—This volume, well printed and otherwise handy; gives the information which the ordinary investor will probably desire to have. British funds, local securities, railway companies and canals, gas and water stocks, breweries and industrial companies generally, are the affairs dealt with. The prices of stocks and shares and the dividends paid (since 1894) are given; in fact, the reader is told on what terms and with what chances, so far as the future can be predicted from the past, he is investing his money Many things of interest might be selected from the book; one, certainly, is the cheapness at the present moment of Ordinary railway stock. Taking Great Western stock at £133, and the dividend of the last twelve months at £5 106., we get a return of £4 2s. ; Midland and North-Western stocks show much the same results.
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