Download or read book A Practical Treatise on Banking (Classic Reprint) written by James William Gilbart and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Practical Treatise on Banking There are several classes of persons to whom I think this book may be more particularly useful. The first class includes those public men who have occasion to write or to speak upon our banking institutions. Statesmen, authors, and reviewers, however cor rect may be their knowledge of banking as a. Science, often fall into mistakes when they attempt to describe its practical Operations. Although it must be admitted that the principles of banking may be well understood without any acquaintance with details, yet it is equally true that if a public man have acquired a competent. Degree Of practical information, his Opinions will carry greater weight, and he will be less liable to fall into erroneous conclusions. They, especially, who are desirous of altering the constitution Of our banking establishments should be anxious not to weaken the force Of their recommendations by making misstatements as to matters of fact. The public have a right to expect that they who attempt to improve a system should be well acquainted with the system they attempt to improve. 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.