From the Authors' PREFACE. IT is clearly unnecessary to call attention to the need or the importance of business training for boys and girls. The rapid increase in the number of commercial high schools and commercial courses indicates that at last a proper value is being placed on an acquaintance with everyday business transactions. As many pupils in our public schools leave before entering the high school there is an increasing demand for a brief course in business methods for the grammar grades. The present book is an attempt to provide a body of practical information pertaining to business matters in a form sufficiently simple for use in the eighth, ninth, and tenth grades. The thought has been to include only those facts everyone should know; to offer a course in business methods rather than in bookkeeping.