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push down these old-fashioned, out-of-date houses, who 

 have hitherto had the game all to themselves. Enterprise 

 in all and every shape abroad is not, and has not been, 

 encouraged in this country for many a year, if ever, cer- 

 tainly not since the merchant adventurers and the Lombard 

 goldsmiths settled down and formed the foundation of the 

 wealth of London and the Empire within a few yards of 

 where these lines are being written. 



But times change, and go on changing — outside London. 

 Unlike the Latin proverb, however, Toiipora mntanUw, nos 

 ft mutannir in illis, London no longer seems to change with 

 the altered times, and certainly not in the way that she 

 should do, if the best interests of the Empire and its future 

 are to be considered. 



Since such are our opinions, and always have been, 

 as anyone who glances through the files of Tropical Lije 

 must own is the case, we were exceedingly glad to 

 receive the December number of the Round Table No. 25 

 (Macmillan and Co., Ltd., price 2s. 6d.), and to notice 

 among the other sections that the one on " Industry and 

 Finance" (pp. 31-66) deals vigorously with the matter of 

 our neglect of our prodigal sons abroad, whose efforts 

 deserve support in the same way as our Teuton rivals not 

 only support theirs, but also train others at home and egg 

 them on also to go abroad and fight for the trade of the 

 Fatherland in a way that we cannot but admire, and 

 regret that our leaders have not followed, or, better still, 

 excelled in. 



Such are our views on the metliods of Germany as com- 

 pared with our own, but we cannot say whether the Court 

 of the Round Table would agree that such views are what 

 they mean us to gather from their articles. 



We will, however, quote certain sentences from the four 

 articles that go to form this section, and then leave our 

 readers to secure a copy of the magazine and form their 

 own opinions as to whether our contemporary goes far 

 enough or whether we go too far. 



The four articles are headed : — 



(i) The Higher Direction of British Industry. 



(2) The German Banking System. 



(3j English and German Banking Compared. 



(4) The Financing of Industry after the War. 



To any man who knows one-fiftieth part of the possi- 

 bilities of development that lies wrapped up in the future 

 of the Tropics, what vistas of delightful but fierce, strenuous 

 trade-fighting these four headings unroll before the mind's 



