3. What are the functions of wholesale merchants and hence what was the importance of their rise at this time?
4. Who were some of the notable merchants of the period? [Bourne, Romance, chap. 12, or English merchants.]
5. What examples can you find nowadays of the different classes of commission merchants mentioned in the text? What commission do they charge?
6. Write a report on the rise of the modern postal system. [See Encyc. Brit., articles Post-office, Postage stamps.]
7. Write a similar report on the history of the newspaper. [Encyc. or Bucher, **Indust. Ev., chap. 6.]
8. Endeavor to understand the reasons for mercantile association, and for the requirement of this association by the government, by reviewing the changes in conditions since this period, and seeing why association is not necessary or compulsory now.
9. Study Cunningham, Growth, vol. 2, sect. 188, on regulated and joint-stock companies, and pick out examples of each type in the following sections.
10. Write a report on the various forms which the (English) East India Company assumed during the first century of its existence, and the reasons for the changes. [Cunningham, or Hunter, **Hist. of British India.]
11. Write a report on abuses and corruption in this company. [Hunter.]
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