CONTENTS

[PREFACE]

[CONTENTS]

[CHAPTER I]

CAPITAL AND ITS REWARD

Finance the machinery of money-dealing—Lenders and borrowers—Capital and its claim to reward—Stored-up work—Inherited wealth—The reward of services—Questionable services—Charles the Second's dukedoms—Modern equivalents—Workers and Savers

[CHAPTER II]

BANKING MACHINERY

Money at a bank—Bills of exchange—Finance and industry—Supremacy of bill on London—London's freedom—The Bank of England—The great joint stock banks—The discount market—Bills and trade

[CHAPTER III]