Excerpt from A Report: To the Electors of the Gartside Scholarships on the Results of a Tour in Germany and the United States in 1905-6IN presenting this report the writer is conscious of the magnitude of the task undertaken, and asks the reader's indulgence on that score.The arrangement and form has been left to the writer, but suggestions from various sources have been adopted. He originally intended to avail himself of statistics of imports and export-s of the three countries under con sideration, but the fact that the figures are so unsatisfactory in general, that they can be so differently interpreted, and that England, which caters principally for home consumption, has no adequate record of home trade, has led him to abandon the idea. Figures for aniline compounds are certainly of importance, but they are not issued separately, and therefore no satisfactory conclusions can be arrived at. Nor can a country's prosperity be gauged by merely considering its imports and exports. The home consumption is of importance, inasmuch as the English Aniline Colour Industry would be considered highly prosperous if we supplied our own needs, and there were no imports and exports. Likewise America might be highly prosperous and yet have little or no foreign trade. In reading figures it must always be remembered that the main quantity of business is local, and that exchanges take place more between the members of a community themselves than between the community and the outside world'.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.