ern
territory in the interest of Boston and New York moneyed men furnish
evidences of wealth in those sections, which cannot but bring to them
the money and enterprise necessary to their full development. The
smaller industries throughout the States east of the Mississippi River
are all doing well. Manufacturers are making money, but not as rapidly
as they would like. Competition is exercising a healthy restraining
influence. Like interests are being drawn together through the spirit
of organization. Manufacture and agriculture are evenly balancing
themselves. Commercial failures for 1889 show a moderate increase,
but, considering the rashness with which ill-equipped persons enter
into business and manufacturing, it is surprising that the failures
are so few.

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S. J. PARKHILL & CO., Printers, Boston.

Transcriber's Note:

Minor printer errors (omitted or incorrect punctuation, missing or
transposed letters etc.) have been corrected without note. All
remaining variations in spelling, hyphenation, etc. are preserved as
in the original, with the following exceptions:

Page iv--Concontractors amended to Contractors--"Estimates.
Builders' and Sub-Contractors', 161"

Page iv--Judaean amended to Judean--"Judean Tombs, 117"

Page v--Scandinavan amended to Scandinavian--"Scandinavian
Art, 37, 53, 63"

Page v--Maxmilian amended to Maximilian--"Tomb. [of]
Maximilian at Innsbruck, 61"

Page vii--place name and page reference transposal
reversed--"Strozzi Palace, Florence, 70"

Page viii--Ruitz amended to Rintz--"Berlin, Ger. ... House
on the Yorkstrasse. Herr Rintz, ..."

Page viii--Willisch amended to Wellisch--"Buda-Pesth,
Austria. House of Herr Hatner. Alfred Willisch, ..."

Page viii--Felixtowe amended to Felixstowe--"Felixstowe,
Eng. The Gables." etc.

Page viii--repeated 'the' deleted--"Painting by Puvis de
Chavannes in the Grand Hall ..."

Page 5--succedded amended to succeeded--"... far from
honourable, have succeeded in getting control ..."

Page 7--scholorship amended to scholarship--"... to whom
scholarship is dear ..."

Page 9--argillacious amended to argillaceous--"... of a
loose argillaceous irony matter ..."

Page 9--repeated 'is' deleted--"... showing that it is not
its geological position ..."

Page 11--gripe amended to grip--"... carrying a lion whose
dreadful grip his frantic rearing cannot loosen."

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