Excerpt from American Finance: With Chapters on Money and Banking The last four chapters, though not within the scope of our definition of Finance, are added because the popular conception of the term IS wider, and readers may expect to find some treatment of these matters in the work. The chapter on Money is an introduction to that on Banking, a subject possessing the deepest practical interest to all. In concluding this preface, it is a pleasure to ac knowledge my great indebtedness to Hon. Charles W. Stone, for several years a Member of Congress from the Twenty-seventh District of Pennsylvania, whose unfailing and prompt assistance has been excelled only by his um varying kindness in rendering it. 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.