ILLUSTRATIONS

I

GENERAL BUSINESS INFORMATION

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A Poorly Drawn Cheque[7]
A Carefully Drawn Cheque[8]
A Cheque Drawn so as to Insure Payment to Proper Party[9]
A Cheque Payable to Order[11]
A Blank Indorsement[11]
A Cheque Made to Obtain Money for Immediate Use[13]
A Certified Cheque[14]
A Cheque for the Purchase of a Draft[16]
A Bank Draft[17]
Ordinary Form of Promissory Note[18]
A Promissory Note Filled Out in an Engraved Blank[19]
A Special Form for a Promissory Note[20]
The Advantages of the Clearing-house System[22]
The Route of a Cheque[24]
Backs of Two Paid Cheques[25]
A Sight Draft Developed from Letter[27]
A Sight Draft[28]
An Accepted Ten-day Sight Draft [28]
An Accepted Sight Draft[29]
A Time Draft[29]
Foreign Exchange[32]
A Bill of Exchange (Private) [35]
A Bill of Exchange (Banker's)[36]
First Page of a Letter of Credit[38]
Second Page of a Letter of Credit[40]
A Certificate of Stock in a National Bank[42]
A Certificate of Stock in a Manufacturing Company[43]
A Protest[48]
A Private Bond[55]
A Shipping Receipt ("Original")[60]
A Steamship Bill of Lading[61]
A Local Waybill[62]

II

BUSINESS GEOGRAPHY

London the Natural Centre of the World's Trade[72]
British Mercantile Marine[74]
London Bridge[76]
The Coal-fields of England[80]
The Manchester Ship Canal[84]
The Great Manufacturing Districts of England[88]
France Compared in Size with the States of Illinois andTexas[95]
Street Scene in Paris, Showing the Bourse[97]
Approximate Size of the German Empire[104]
North Central Germany, Showing the Ship Canal andthe Leading Commercial Centres[109]
Spain Compared in Size with California[113]
Italy and its Chief Commercial Centres[117]
Russia, the British Empire, and the United States Compared[121]
Moscow[127]
Comparative Sizes of India and the United States[133]
China and its Chief Trade Centres[145]
Japan's Relation to Eastern Asia[155]
The Partition of Africa[159]
Australia[171]
The Most Prosperous Part of South America[183]
Trade Centres of Canada and Trunk Railway Lines[192]
Export Trade of United States and Great Britain Compared[198]
United States Manufactures and Internal Trade Comparedwith the Manufactures and Internal Trade of allOther Countries[199]
Principal Articles of Domestic Exports of the UnitedStates [205]

III

FINANCE, TRADE, AND TRANSPORTATION

The Bank of England[216]
Showing Cheque Raised from $7.50 to $70.50[241]
A Certified Cheque[244]
A Bank Draft[245]
A Bill of Exchange[246]
Illustrating Cheque Collections[252]
A Mercantile Agency Inquiry Form[259]
Specimens of Interest Coupons[266]
Judge Thomas M. Cooley, First Chairman of the InterstateCommerce Commission[287]
The Paris Bourse[289]
Interior View of New York Stock Exchange[290]