5 DECEMBER 1863, Page 18

Hints on Life Assurance, with Selected Examples and Illustrations. By

John Fitzhugh. (Liverpool : Webb and Hunt.)—This is an admirable little tract on Life Assurance, not advocating the claims of any special company, nor intended to advocate them, but written from a wholly independent position, and explaining clearly and tersely, with full illustrative examples, the different principles followed in the dif- ferent kinds of Life Assurance offices and the various advantages of each. It is brief as well as well written, and would make a very good guide to those weighing the principles on which they might wish to insure their own lives. It is not quite limited to Life Assurances, ex- plaining also the rates at which a provision for old age can be in some offices secured.