The Stock Exchange has been described as the mart of the world; as the nerve-centre of the politics and finances of nations; as the barometer of their prosperity and adversity; and as the bottomless pit of London, worse than all the hells. This book, first published in 1904, examines the London Stock Exchange in its purest sense, as the market for stocks and shares.
1. What the Stock Exchange Is
2. The Market Place
3. The Members and
their Clerks
4. The Committee
5. Brokers and Jobbers
6. How Business is
Transacted
7. The Settlement
8. The Zoology of the House
9. Option Dealing
10. The Wares of the Market
11. Failures
12. Price Lists and Records
13. The
Royal Commissions View
14. A Sketch History
15. A Brokers Day
16. From a
Social Point of View
Charles Duguid
