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Just Published. — Price, 50 Cents. 



THE BANKER'S COMMON-PLACE BOOK, 



137 Pages, duodecimo ; containiog 



I. A Treatise on Banking, By A. B. Johnson, Esq., President Onta- 

 rio Bank, Utica. 

 II- Ten Minutes' Advice on Keeping a Banker. By J. W. Gilbart, 



Esq., of the London and Westminster Bank. 



III. Byles on the Law of Bills of Exchange. 



IV. Remarks on Bills of Exchange. By J. Eamsay M'CuHoch, 

 V. Forms of Bills of Exchange, in Eight European Languages. 



VI. Forms of Notice of Protest, with Eemarks. 

 VIL Synopsis of the Bank Laws of Massachusetts, in force Jan. 1851. 

 VIIL Decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, in refer- 

 ence to Banking. 



Persons who reside at a distance can receive tlie work per mail ; postage paid 



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** Manj excellent works on l)anking, and a still greater number of articles on banking, in magaziaes 



And other perioaical pubUcatJons, have appeared hi America. We have before ua one of no commoii 



merit. It is entitled A Treatise on Banking— The Puties of a Banker, and his Personal IUqui^ite8 



therefor. By A. B. Johnson, Presiaent of the Ontario Branch Bank, at Udca, in the State of New 

 York* 



" The first part—* The Bank '-contains a clear exposition of some important principles of bankii^ 

 and currency, and a compariaon between the Safety Fund system and the Free Bank 8jstem esUb- 

 Ibhed in New York. 



" The Bpcond part—* Th« Banker ' is of a highly practical cbara^^ter ; and it shows &at howftyer 

 "^dely the banks of England and of America may differ in their principles, the fields of their opera- 

 tions, their constitutione, and their privileges, yet the practical operations, the qnalifications of their 

 bankers, the dangers to which they are exposed, and the means necessary to snccess, are mnch th« 

 in both countries. 



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Uur readers will doubtless obserre that many of the lessons inculcated in the abo -^ ^ 

 are simiUr to those that have often appeared in our pages, either in original contriburions or in ex- 

 tracts from works that me hare reviewed. This coincidence in the views of E_^X^b antJ American 

 *«wikw h a confirmation of their soundne^. We like the sentiment,-" While a banker »dh«re« 

 *ith regularity to known forms of business and setUed principles, ProridencB is gaarantee for his 

 ■uccess." We beUeve that in nlmoat ever}' case the failore of a b^^nk has arisen from a ^sregard of 

 «>und principles. Whether or not a bank follows, in its practical adminiaE^tion, the lessons of ex- 

 I^erience, is of much more importance to success than whether U coii.:-:s of six or seren bnadred 

 partners. The management of a bank is of more importance than its con^tation."—^,^^-^^.^ -^ -• 

 m' Magazint. 



The author of ane of the able;* work* on banking fn this country, never proUbly c-rr^td a hnn- 

 ^d dollars worth of bank stock, or had as much in depos^ in any bank firing to aatormi life. 

 Wft may point, however, to an honorable exception in the person of A. B. John«m, Bsq., *be P«^- 

 dent of the Ontario Branch Bank. Mr. Johnson is not only a rich man, but an able and acc^^mi... -1 

 writer <m banking, finance, currency, and general Hterature. 



«e IS moreover. % model bank man, ger. UU clear head, stn^ona bid»t^ mnd gy^twrn^ nwthod 

 n buMnewiuattm, would be inferred from hi« wrUings bY tho«e who aw not acaaaiat*a with hii 

 hablto tod ehattacter. 



tlMJ beat writej^ in England on the sublet of Banklng-pra. : ', theoretkad and hL^torical-GU- 

 wt, Beil, L&wsoa, Franrb, &c , ar« all either Iwnk ro«i«^ or bank ck ^- Eogei* ttd Ti^pper, 

 P^** and the proverbial philosopher are bankers,— .V. T, Sfirror. 



