In Chronicles and Characters of the Stock Exchange he paints a broad canvas of its history, with anecdotes from the various bubbles and manias, frauds and forgeries, and tales of the leading families, including the Rothschilds. The appendix lists useful trading information for the time.
 
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Original Publication: United States: Wm. Crosby and H. P. Nichols, 1850.