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• Prefatory Note to the Eleventh Edition
• Prefatory Note to the Twelfth Edition
• Lombard Street To-day By Hartley Withers
• Lombard Street.
• Chapter I: Introductory
• Chapter II: A General View of Lombard Street
• Chapter III: How Lombard Street Came to Exist, and Why It Assumed Its Present Form
• Chapter IV: The Position of the Chancellor of the Exchequer In the Money Market
• Chapter V: The Mode In Which the Value of Money Is Settled In Lombard Street
• Chapter VI: Why Lombard Street Is Often Very Dull, and Sometimes Extremely Excited
• Chapter VII: A More Exact Account of the Mode In Which the Bank of England Has Discharged Its Duty of Retaining a Good Bank Reserve
• Chapter VIII: The Government of the Bank of England
• Chapter IX: The Joint Stock Banks
• Chapter X: The Private Banks
• Chapter XI: The Bill-brokers
• Chapter XII: The Principles Which Should Regulate the Amount of Banking Reserve to Be Kept By the Bank of England
• Chapter XIII: Conclusion
• Appendix I
• Note A. Liabilities and Cash Reserve of the Chief Banking Systems.
• Note B. Extract From Evidence Given By Mr. Alderman Salomons Before House of Commons Select Committee In 1858.
• Note D. Meeting of the Proprietors of the Bank of England. September 13, 1866.(FROM 'economist,' September 22, 1866.)
• Appendix Ii By E. Johnstone
• Note I
• Note Ii

Prefatory Note to the Eleventh Edition

In this Edition additional Notes have been inserted by Mr. E. Johnstone, in Appendix II., and the other Notes have been revised by him, so as to bring up the work to the present date.

July, 1899.