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V . The publishers of this book will both 
prepare Tables of existing investments as 
heretofore explained, and also construct com 
plete Investment Schemes for every investor’s 
individual case. Furthermore, they analyse 
the stocks held as to soundness, and sug 
gest which of them could be most advan 
tageously retained. They also keep up a 
permanent Register in which the safest, best, 
and most remunerative stocks for the time 
being in every Geographical Division are 
recorded. By means of this Register they can 
indicate instantly stocks most suitable to 
every kind of Investment Scheme. 
There are some investors who have a 
rooted prejudice against all Foreign Invest 
ments. This attitude is highly patriotic, no 
doubt, but, like every other fancy, it has to be 
paid for. 
To such investors as these the theory of 
this book will not prove palatable, in spite of 
the obvious wisdom of a wide distribution of 
investment risks. It is, in our opinion, impos 
sible to construct a really safe Investment List 
consisting of British stocks only, for the simple 
reason that these stocks are bound all to move 
together. The best practical substitute which 
we can* suggest for world-wide distribution of 
investment capital is the careful choice of