Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Fire Insurance
It seems desirable that either a new edition of the lec tures should be printed, or that something new should be published in their place. The latter alternative has been chosen, and instead of simply reprinting the old lectures, the plan has been adopted of selecting special readings, partly from the Yale Lectures, partly from other sources. This plan was preferred because the literature of fire and miscellaneous forms of insurance has been devel oping so rapidly that a much more comprehensive text book can now be prepared than was possible a few years ago. By not confining this volume to a reprint of the old lectures, it has been possible to take advantage of the advance which has taken place in this literature. Only seven of the lectures in the old volume are reprinted, and all but one of these have been extensively changed. Some of the matter now published has never appeared before, and much of the remainder has been revised.
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