No financier seriously believes that the issue of bonds authorized by the treaty for the credit of the Reparations Commission has now any probability of success.

Its head, Herr Arthur von Gwinner, the great financier, is a close adviser of the Kaiser.

"I was just saying to Miss Falconer that I wish Fate had made me a great financier instead of a country squire, Orme!

A flush, as if of shame, came upon the great financier's face, and he frowned at the papers lying before him, where they had dropped from his hand.

Maude was now almost as celebrated as Sir Stephen; for her beauty, her reputed wealth, and the fact that she was engaged to the son of Sir Stephen, had raised her to an exalted position in the fashionable world; and her name figured in the newspapers very nearly as often as that of the great financier.

But the Budget of 1860 contained a clause which, in spite of the deserved reputation of the Chancellor of the Exchequer as a skilful financier, was not regarded with general favor.

Such insight fascinated Ralph, and he strayed off into wondering why it did not qualify every financier to be a novelist, and what intrinsic barrier divided the two arts.

He is a poet, a philosopher, an artist, an engineer, a military commander, an advocate, an attorney, a financier, a steam-engine, a telegraph-operator, a servant-of-all-work, a Job, a Hercules, and a Bonaparte, rolled into one.

Both commonplace and common was Mr. Percy Potter (according to some standards), but clever, with immense patience, a saving sense of humour, and that imaginative vision without which no newspaper owner, financier, general, politician, poet, or criminal can be great.

"The great difficulty that now confronts us," said the financier, "is as to how we shall raise that money.

"Ah" "It's a most baffling one," continued the financier.

"I say I suppose we can count on you for a subscription of two hundred and fifty dollars," repeated the financier.

"Mr.ahBlank," said he to the financier, "would you and Mr. Hicks mind walking down to the church with me?" "Say, he's going to put it in for us!"

The lesson was lost upon the financier.

"Don't be a fool," replied that sturdy financier, "Sandford will fail to-day, probably.

"Let's put it up to the financier and let him choose.

R63979, 29Jun50, Alan Osbourne (NK) CATTY ATKINS, FINANCIER; by Clarence Budington Kelland.

Lawyers Co-operative Pub. Co. (PCW); 14May59; R236595. RUNYON, DAMON. Broadway financier.

Broadway financier.

R63979, 29Jun50, Alan Osbourne (NK) CATTY ATKINS, FINANCIER; by Clarence Budington Kelland.

Elenor Hosta Lawson (W); 28Mar67; R406604. Jump whenever the financier pulls the string.

The ekka horses, too, had brought our heavy luggage all the way from Abbotabad over a shocking road in the most admirable manner, and we had every reason to congratulate ourselves on having entrusted the arrangement of the whole businessthe "bandobast" in native parlanceto our henchman Sabz Ali, who had thus proved himself an energetic and trustworthy organiser, and saving financier to the extent of some twenty rupees.

A New York financier STUART WHITE Captain of the British sloop, Hawk JOHN LATHAM Lieutenant of the British sloop, Hawk EDWARD CHARTERIS

"Perhaps so," said old Van Quintem; "but a financier of your talent needn't act, or mend railings, for a living.

Canga Arguelles, the first Spanish financier and statistician of his day, calculated the territorial revenue of Spain at 8,572,220,592 reals, say, in sterling, L.85,722,200; whilst he asserts, with better cultivation, population the same, the soil is capable of returning ten times the value.