BIBLIOGRAPHY. The English and American Bibliography. The English and American writings on insurance are nearly all of a techni cal or practical character. The only general work of any great merit in the English language is Walfo•d's Insurance Cyclopedia (London, 1871-80). Of the numerous general works in French and German, the following are among the best: Chaufton, Lcs assurances (Paris. 1884) ; Wagner, "Vrrsicherungswesen," in Selffinberg's Handbuch. der politisehra Orkonomir, ii. 2 (Tubingen, 1896-981; Emminghaus, “Versieher ungswesen." "Fenerversicherung," "Lebensver sieherung," in Conrad's Hand•orterbuch der Staatsirisscnsc)taften, vi., iii. and iv. (.iena, 1890-94) ; Brihn•r, Versieherungswescn (Leipzig, 1894), containing a very full bibliography. The work which. when it is completed, will undoubted ly be the most erudite and exhaustive in any lan guage, is the Hand irlirt rrbuch des aesa int rn Vcrsichcrungswescns, edited by Baumgartner, of which only the first volume has yet appeared (St rassburg, 1897-98). The Cyclopedia of Insurance in the United States, published by the Insurance Journal Company of Hartford, Conn.. contains valuable digests of the insurance
legislation of the various States, and of judicial decisions alfeeting insurance, and also descrip tions of the forms of policies issued by the differ ent life insurance companies. •hrenzweig's Asse kuranzjahrbuch (Vienna, 1880) gives a mass of information about insurance in the different European countries. For statistics (if the United States the best source of information is the Re ports of the Insurance Departments of the various States. Among the more valuable of these re ports are those of Massachusetts, New York, and Ohio. The Spectator Year-Book (New York, 1809 et seq.) gives full information about tire insurance in the United States. For a theoreti cal treatise on fire insurance, reference may be made to Seh•amm-Macdonald, l'encrr•rsicher unysiecsen (Dresden, 1883). (hi marine insur atiie, consult: Martin, History of Lloyds and of Marine Insurance in. Great Britain (London, 1S'O) ; Cow, Marine Insurance (London, 1895).