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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

NOTE II

On December 31, 1891, the deposits of these four banks amounted to £70,000,000, but owing to amalgamations which have altered the identity of two out of the four, the further growth of the deposits since Mr. Bagehot wrote cannot be accurately traced. Some indication of it, however, may be gathered from the fact that the purely Metropolitan banks (including one of comparatively small magnitude) held on December 31, 1905, deposits to the amount of £78,000,000, and at the same date ten London banks with country branches held between there deposits aggregating over £374,000,000. The private deposits of the Bank of England on December 27, 1905, amounted to £44,000,000.