Excerpt from A Plain Guide to Investment and Finance: Hints to Investors; An Exposition of Finance The Object of this book is simple and direct. All people need to invest their savings from time to time. They are not in the way of knowing, from professional experience in finance, what securities are best worthy of attention at certain periods and what should be avoided, and why. Most probably they have not available the skilled advice of competent persons; and they themselves possess but a moderate and merely general knowledge of what forms a sound investment 1 in Spite of fluctuations Of values, and of partial or exten sive panics, or in what manner its soundness or inferiority Should be discriminated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.