Excerpt from Investment Bonds: Their Issue and Their Place in Finance, a Book for Students, Investors, and Practical Financiers Some months past a prominent banker of this city delivered an address touching largely on Investment Bonds, in the course of which he was requested to mention a work devoted entirely to that subject. The reply was that he knew of no book of this nature and he believed that none existed; and a review of current financial literature confirmed this belief. That inci dent, together with numerous similar inquiries that have come to the attention of the author, is responsible for the present volume. Nearly every other branch of finance has received an adequate measure cf attention. There are for instance, fully a score of good works on the various aspects of banking and on kindred subjects. It is a singular fact, however, that Investment Bonds, taken as a separate subject, have had scant consideration. The published information at present available on the subject is scarcely more than passing mention in some financial works, one or two small volumes which are little else than reference works, and the advertising pamphlets of banking houses. This material is so scattered as to preclude the possibility of obtaining from it any satisfactory amount of trustworthy in formation. Only a few, comparatively, such as those whose daily association with this branch of finance affords them opportunity for its study, are in a position to learn of its many phases. 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.