Excerpt from The A B C of Life Insurance A demand for the A B C requiring a fourth edition to meet it is evidence that every year a very considerable number of men wish to know what Life Insurance is. It is a pleasure to pre sent to them a revised and enlarged edition of the book, con taining a more extended discussion of net premiums, a presen tation of the theory of surrender values and surrender charges, and a new table of Combined Experience, 4 per cent net premiums and, in its references to the actual conduct of the business mforming to the latest practice. C. E. W. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The ABC of Life Insurance TO explain and illustrate some of the fundamental and elementary principles of Life Insurance so simply that they can readily be understood by men who have not been specially trained as mathematicians, or have not had their attention particularly directed to the theory and mathe maties of Life Insurance, is the aim of this little book. For those who already possess this elementary knowledge, there are many excellent hand-books which carry the dis cussion much further, and cover the entire subject in the ablest and most satisfactory manner. But as an intro duction to these, a beginning, an easy lesson, it is hoped that the following pages will have their use. They owe their existence to the impossibility of finding among the text-books already published, anything which seemed exactly adapted to this purpose. C. E. W. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.