vi PREFACE. 



The articles " Failures in Business," u Financial Review of 1883," and " United 

 States Finances," show clearly what has taken place in the monetary world. 

 These and the numerous other articles, most of which, being subjects treated 

 every year, need not be specially enumerated, constitute substantially the 

 world's chronicle for 1883. Those who have just lived that year amid the 

 crowding occurrences of our hurrying age, will realize, as they glance over the 

 record, how letters in their simplest and humblest capacity, if they can not 

 bring back the past, at least may double memory, and thereby lengthen life. 



An index to the eight volumes (including the present) of the New Series 

 will be found at the close of the book. An effort has been made to give it 

 sufficient fullness to render all the information easily accessible, and yet not to 

 overload it with needless entries that obscure the very things the reader is look- 

 ing for. 



In its proper place will be found a portrait and brief sketch of the late 

 "William J. Tenney, who edited this work from its beginning, in 1861, up to 

 and including the volume for 1882. 



NEW YOBK, April 11, 1884. 



