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Transport. — Third Yean\ Fee, £1 11s. 6d. The course will give an outline survey of the various means of transportation, with a more particular treatment of railways—their development and organization. The forces influencing railway rates will be considered, and the attempts of various governments to control or manage railways will be explained and criticised. Some attention will be given to ocean freights ; as well as to canals and other means of internal communication. Technique of Trade. — Third Year. Fee, £4 4s. This course will deal with the organisation of the great staple markets and commercial institutions at home and abroad, the chief technical terms, and the most important mercantile documents. It will not seek to reproduce the minutiae of counting house practice. Money and Banking.—-Third Yea/. Fee, £1 lls. 6d. The functions and forms of money; credit instruments and their use ; the functions of banking and the organization of the English banking system as compared with those of the United States and Germany ; the money market; and the phenomena of international exchange. Statistics. — Third Year. Fee, £1 lls. 6d. The course is intended to serve as an exposition of the statistical methods most commonly employed rather than as a description of mere results- The chief governmental statistics of Great Britain, dealing with trade and manufactures, will be examined; and an attempt will be made to indicate, after a consideration of the mechanism for securing information employed in each case, the extent to which the results are of value, and the way in which they might be rendered more serviceable. Economic Analysis. — Second Year. Fee, £1 lls. 6d. This course will take a rapid survey of the whole of the wealth-producing and wealth-distri-buting activity of society. It will seek to disentangle the larger forces at work, to direct attention to the complex relations of cause and effect, and to indicate the general causes and criteria of national prosperity. It will thus supplement the courses on commerce by (1) emphasizing the general considerations only incidentally touched upon therein, and (2) connecting commerce with other sides of national life. HISTORY. Professor : European History. — First Year. Two hours weekly, by arrangement. Fee, £2 12s. 6d. This course will present the broad outlines of the political and constitutional history of Europe and America. Its object is to assist the student to realise the forces which have been at work in shaping the present condition of western society, and to realise the motives (other than those primarily economic) which now influence the policies of contemporary statesmen and Parliaments. British Institutions. — First Year. Two hours weekly, by arrangement. Fee, £2 12s. 6d. In this course an account will be given of all the more important parts of the governmental machinery of the British Empire; first of Great Britain and Ireland, from the Parish Council up through the District, Borough, and County Councils to Parliament itself, together with the Judiciary and the central Executive Departments; then of the chief self-governing daughter peoples —Canada, Australia, South Africa ; then of the Crown Colonies and India ; and finally of the Privy Council and other Imperial institutions. ACCOUNTING. Professor: Course I. — First Year. Monday, 5.30 to 6.30. Fee, £1 lls. 6d. Instruction in simple systems of book-keeping, explaining the meaning of " debit " and "credit " and the principle of double entry, and wherein it differs from single entry. This course will comprise a description of all usual subsidiary books, leading up to the account books proper. Such instruction will include an explanation of the trial balance, the balance sheet and trade account, and the meaning of "capital , ' and "revenue," and other terms used in book-keeping and accounts. A few lectures will be given on the theory of compound interest, annuities, and sinking funds, together with an explanation of the construction and use of interest, annuity, life, and sinking fund tables. Opportunity will also be taken in connection with this course to give some training in. rapid arithmetical methods. Course II. — Second Year. Fee, £3 3s. This course will begin with a further explanation of the technique of accounting. This will include : (1.) A description of the various forms of books suitable for different requirements, with an explanation of the sectional balancing of books. (2.) An outline of the forms of books and accounts adapted to different classes of undertakings such as banks, public authorities,