Excerpt from Cuba the Pearl of the Antilles Undoubtedly the reader is familiar with the fact that there ewists a surprisingly large number of books on the subject of foreign trade which devote three fourths of their space to use less generalities and the giving of advice on the subject, of such a character as the business man, who uses sound judgment, does not need, and which, for anyone not gifted with common sense, is useless. Time and again the author has seen books on the subject, of 500 to 800 pages, which give no more of basic, fundamental, necessary information than could have been rendered in one third of the same space. Realizing the importance of saving to the business man time and brain power by not wasting his time and energy by a lot of useless data and generalities, the author has prepared the present volume an Cuba its trade and how to cater to and se cure it, with the aim. In view not of how much (useless) infor mation the book furnishes, but rather, how much (useless) in formation is cut out. It is unnecessary to dwell upon the impor tance of Cuban trade, and upon the many factors favoring the conquest of that trade by the United States. These facts are too well known to the progressive business man to be worthy of repetition. 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.