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NOTICES OF KECENT PUBLICATIONS. 235H. A. RAMSDEN : Modern Chinese Copper Coins. Worcester,Mass., U.S.A. 1911.WE are glad to have in collected form the useful series ofpapers that Mr. Ramsden has been contributing to theNumismatist on the copper and brass coins of European fabric,which the Chinese Government has been trying to introducein the last ten years to displace the cast cash which havedone duty for centuries. It yet remains to be seen whetherthe experiment will be a success. This little book is wellillustrated, and the useful glossary and introductory notescontain all that is required by the student unacquainted withChinese. Though they do not strictly fall within the scopeof this book, Mr. Ramsden might have included the brassstruck Kwang-Tung cash of 1889, as forming an interestinglink between the old currency and the coins here described.The author does not appear to have met with copper coins ofthe Sze Chuan province. The British Museum possessesthe 20 and 10 cash pieces in red copper and yellow brass, butthey are probably patterns.J. A.History of Money in the British Empireand the United States.By Agnes F. Dodd. Longmans, Green & Co. London,New York, &c. 1911.THIS is one of the most interesting works of its nature thathas appeared in recent times. It is a treatise not only on theactual coinage of the two great English-speaking nations ofthe world, but on all other matters relating to money from aneconomic point of view, including the history of paper currencyand its effects, of banking, of the establishment of a goldstandard in this country, of bimetallism, &c.The Author has divided her work into two separate parts:the first dealing with money in the British Empire the;second with its general history in the United States.The first section consists of a series of chapters on theEnglish coinage, tracing its origin under Roman dominationon to the Anglo-Saxon and Early English periods; thencethrough the rule of the Plantagenets, the Tudors, the Stuarts,to the present time, or rather to the end of the reign ofGeorge III, since when it has remained on the same basisand in uninterrupted stability. In each chapter besides thehistory of the coinage, a short account is supplied of itseconomic side ;that is, the value of money as a commodity,