Excerpt from Commerce and the Empire 1914 and After IT may be asked why is this book published in war-time I reply that the question is a very natural one, and that whilst so many of the cream of our young manhood, together with the hopes and dreams and happiness of tens of millions, are being swept down the ghastly stream of a veritable Niagara of blood, and whilst civilization and freedom gasp for breath, questions affecting buying and selling might well have been put aside - as they were-and kept aside - as they have not been. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.