1923. Volume 23 of the Modern Business Texts series. Investment as a body of knowledge is an assemblage of materials drawn from different sources. In it one will find ideas drawn from law, from accounting, from corporation finance, from mathematics, and from the general literature of industry and commerce. This volume is a general text upon investment, which aims to preserve some sort of balance and proportion in its treatment of the various topics involved, must of necessity be introductory in character.