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annotated. Moreover, the pilotage rates
and harbour dues are furnished for every
port in the United Kingdom, with the rates
and charges of the docks and wharves in
London, tables of duties and drawbacks,
orders in council, and regulations of the
Board of Trade, besides a minute explanation
of commercial methods, rules, and manners
in Great Britain. A synopsis of customs'
bonds, a list of warehousing ports, and of
the principal ports and places of shipment
throughout the world — a concise review of
the articles of merchandise, chiefly constitut-
ing the export and import trade of this coun-
try — and tables of money, measures, weights,
and exchanges, of relative values and prices,
are given in separate departments of this
very comprehensive manual. Merchants and
others interested in commercial and mari-
time affairs will at once appreciate the labour
and the ability which have been devoted to
the compilation of the work, which is, in
scope and accuracy, not only unsurpassed,
but unrivalled.
Ceitic, April 15, 1856.
An invaluable work of reference, contain-
ing the fullest information respecting every-
thing that appertains to mercantile and
maritime transactions. From among the
vast mass of iliformation contained in the
volume, we may specify the various statutes
bearing upon merchant shipping, passengers,
pilotage, port and harbour dues, and aliens ;
the customs laws, and every particular re-
specting the levying of duties, tables of
tariffs, &c. ; and a collection of tables show-
ing the relative value of all the valrious
moneys, weights, and measures in use
throughout the world. It is impossible to
overrate the value of such a work.
Obseevek, MarcJi 31, 1856.
This large volume, of nearly 1200 ample
and closely-printed pages, will be found one
of extensive utility to two of the most im-
portant classes in the community. It is
compiled, and in many parts written, by two
gentlemen, one learned in all that relates to
mercantile and maritime law, and the other
deeply experienced in the practice and usages
connected with each trade or commerce. It
is divided into five parts, subdivided into
forty comprehensive sections, each embrac-
ing some important branch of mercantile and
maritime custom, law, or practice, and these
sections comprise no fewer than 1664 items.
It is a work of vast research, admirable, and,
we have no doubt, accurate execution. No
merchant or naval man should allow his
counting-house or library to be without it.
The intelligent reader, though no trader or
seafarer, but who seeks information of all
sorts, will find in the volume much to in-
struct him, and excite pleasingly his reflect-
ing faculties. As a book of reference and
study in this the greatest of commercial coun-
tries, we hardly know of its equal ; and it is,
therefore, recommended by us very earnestly
to the serious attention of every member of
that community who transact trade and com
merce with all — or, at least, portions of all —
the people of the earth.
Shipping and Mercantile Gazette,
March 28, 1856.
Few commercial works have come under
our notice recommended by such meritorious
claims to public consideration as this. It is
so ably digested, so carefully arranged, and
embraces in its various details such a mass of
useful practical information, that it forms a
multum in parvo, supplying of itself all that
we have hitherto had to search for in several
volumes. To go over in detail the subjects
touched upon is impossible. The work is
evidently no mere hasty compilation, but a
carefully-written digest, in which every avail-
able and reliable authority has been consulted
— hence, our merchants and shipowners will
find in this comprehensive manual a mass of
information necessary for directing the course,
and developing the resources of their trade, ,
both at home and abroad. .=- .
Bankers' Circular, March 22, 1856.
This is a work which is really designed for ■
persons engaged in mercantile and marine ,
pursuits, and embraces a wide range of sub-
jects connected with these two branches of
our national industry. The law on these
subjects has been within the last few years ,
so changed, as to require that it should be
treated in a clear and practical form, and we
have much pleasure in saying that the authors
of the present work have performed a very
arduous labour imposed upon them in the'
production of this publication. The book in
itself is a complete CyclopEedia of Trade and
Commerce, such as the greatest commercial
nation in the world has a claim to place
before her "merchant princes."
Civil Service Gazette, March 22, 1856.
It would be impossible within our limits
to give an adequate idea of the comprehen-
sive work now before us. Professing to be
a guide to merchants, shipowners, masters,
agents, brokers, in short, to all who have to
do with the mercantile marine of this coun-
try, it is, in the amplest sense, an authority
and directory upon almost every conceivable
point of difficulty which can arise in connec-
tion with the vast and complicated interests
of which it treats. Indeed, it would be hard
to say what it is which is needful to be
known on the various subjects connected
with our mercantile marine, which is not
amply treated of in this book. It contains,
besides, a carefully-compiled index, is con-
venient in size, and as a guide and expositor
on questions of doubt or difficulty will be
found of the greatest value.
Economist, May 10, 1856.
This is an admirably got up and really
complete and authentic compendium of all
the information essential to merchants on
matters connected with their profession —
matters legislative, financial, commercial,
aild customary — which can be conveyed in
books. All persons engaged in commercial
enterprise will find it well worth tjieir while
to possess it.
Printed and Published by William Mackenzie, London, Edinburgh, and Glasgow.