FINANCE.

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

IN the progress of contemporary finance the midsummer months of each successive year are a period of singular interest. It is then that there come into public view the forces over which neither human foresight nor human ingenuity can exercise the least control, and yet which are fundamental in their influence on national prosperity. Of all the wealth produced each year, in the modern as in the ancient world, the greater part is that which grows out of the ground; and this is precisely the portion of the world's annual production which is wholly subject to the caprice of nature...