Before the next number of the Bulletin is issued, members of the Society will receive a copy of the latest volume in the Harvard Studies in Business History. The book is entitled the Development of Two Bank Groups in the Central Northwest: a Study in Bank Policy and Organization.

The National Archives has in its custody an unexploited group of records that constitutes one of the best collections in existence bearing upon the brilliant period of our nation's maritime history from 1792 to 1801. This material is found in the papers of the United States Court of Claims and relates to those cases commonly known as French Spoliation Claims.

Various religions have been critical of the business man or even hostile to him. Christian writers have crudely called him the “rich man.” The Old Testament set the fashion, but not with a single voice. The New Testament is more emphatic, even if not uniformly opposed to enterprise, efficiency, and success.