By Mr. Jas. B. Forgan, Chairman, Board of Directors, First National Bank of Chicago.

In the daily course of banking business, while much is mere routine, every one of experience knows that questions are constantly arising which necessitate an appeal to authority for guidance in the novel circumstances presented. The man who can meet such occasions and act with sense and discretion the man who is likely to rise in his profession. In the present work Canadian bankers have a book of ready reference containing some six hundred answers to such questions by a committee eminently fitted to give authoritative advice.

There is, of course, considerable difference between Canada and the United States, both in regard to the law and the practice of banking, but general principles are the same in both countries, and I cordially recommend a study of this book to the members of the American Institute of Bank Clerka and all others who are seeking to prepare themselves for higher and more responsible positions in the banking world.

(Signed) .Jas. B. Forgan.