Excerpt from The Investors' Review, Vol. 14: Weekly Issue; July 8 to December 30, 1899 The volume containing the analysis of our trade with foreign countries and British possessions issued each year has now reached very substantial proportions, thanks to the gradual expansion of the items set forth in detail. It gives us our trade with each country. And with each British dependency in abstract and in detail, so that one is able to see at a glance how business has fared in any part of the world for the British merchant and manufacturer. A mine of information, in short, is contained within the thousand pages to which this volume now extends. At present we shall only mention a fact or two. The figures are for the five years ending 1898, and they show that comparing the first year of the five with the last, our imports from foreign countries have risen about 18 per cent., and our exports thereto rather more than 41; per cent.

With our colonial possessions of all descriptions our trade has not grown in the same way. Imports therefrom have risen less than 65 per cent., but exports thereto have increased almost 14 per cent. We do not draw any sweeping deduction from a generalised statement of this sort, but it certainly does not indicate that trade follows the ag. In volume our colonial imports, including India and Burmah, amounted to about £94, ooo, ooo in 1894, against less than £99,5oo, ooo in 1898, but our exports to the same places rose from £78,6oo, ooo to With foreign countries we did a far larger business. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.

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