PREFATORY NOTE

This List is principally composed of titles of books shelved in the Library, in the section devoted to banks and banking. There have, however, been inserted the more important treatises in other classifications which refer to the subject. Certain United States documents and Parliamentary papers which possess special value for the study of the subject have been included. Treatises on currency are not included. General treatises on banking, its principles and mechanism, are Bagehot's "Lombard street: a description of the money market;" Bolles's "Practical banking;" Conant's "A history of modern banks of issue;" Courcelle-Seneuil's "Les opérations de banque;" Crump's "The English manual of banking, 2d ed.;" Dunbar's "Chapters on banking;" Easton's "The history and principles of banks and banking;" Fiske's "The modern bank; a description of its functions and methods, etc.;" Gilbart's "A practical treatise on banking;" Indianapolis monetary convention, "Report;" Macleod's "The elements of banking, 3d ed.;" Palgrave's "Notes on banking;" Patten's "The methods and machinery of practical banking;" Raguet's "A treatise on currency and banking;" Scharling's "Bankpolitik;" Scott's "Money and banking;" and White's "Money and banking illustrated by American history."

General histories of banking are Collins's "The history, law, and practice of banking;" Conant's "A history of modern banks of issue;" Gilbart's "The history, principles, and practice of banking;" Goddard's "A general history of the most prominent banks in Europe;" and "A history of banking in all the leading nations."

For the general history of banks and banking in the United States there are to be specially noted Dunbar's "Laws of the United States relating to currency, finance, and banking from 1789 to 1896;" Knox's "A history of banking in the United States;" Sumner's "A history of banking in the United States;" and White's "Money and banking illustrated by American history." Other works on the subject are: Baker's "Banks and banking in the United States;" Bolles's "The financial history of the United States;" Conant's "A history of modern banks of issue;" Dawes's "The banking system of the United States;" Eliason's "The rise of commercial banking institutions in the United States;" Elliot's "The funding system of the United States and of Great Britain;" Gilbart's "The history of banking in America;" and Gouge's "A short history of paper money and banking in the United States." For fundamental material on the Bank of the United States there is Clarke and Hall's "Legislative and docu

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