Reprinted from the Bankers' magazine, the Economist, the Economic Jjournal, and the Financial and commercial supplement of the London times Includes index Competition in banking.--"Window-dressing" and gold reserves.--Bank amalgamations.--The "middleman" in finance.--How our export trade is financed.--How our import trade is financed.--Are we "over-banked"?--A foreign view of the Bank of England [A review (reproduced from the Economic journal) of Professor Andréadès' "Histoire de la Banque d'Angleterre" published in Paris in 1904]--"Money."--Bankers and municipal accounts.--"Bank rate": its effect on the money market and the stock exchange.--United States currency and banking expedients.--The regulation of note issues.--Branch managers and borrowing customers.--How to deal with "head office": some suggestions to branch managers.--Bankers and the custody of valuables.--Fifty years of the Bank act.--The Liverpool bank frauds.--The failure of Dumbell's bank.--Some representative bankers.--Banking "don'ts" for juniors.--Some tendencies and some weak points of the English banking system.--The literature of banking.--Index