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By JOHN SIBREE, M.A., Lond., Translator of Hegel's "Philosophy of History" for Bohn's Series. LONDON: TRÜBNER & CO., 57 AND 59, LUDGATE HILL. NEW PART OF THE INTERNATIONAL NUMISMATA ORIENTALIA. Vol. II. Part I. (Complete in itself), royal 4to., about 300 pages. THE COINS OF THE JEWS. By FREDERIC W. MADDEN, M.R.S.L., M. Num. Soc. Associé Etranger de la Société Royale de la Numismatique Belge; Foreign Corresponding Member of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia; Fellow of the Numismatic and Archæological Society of Montreal. Ilustrated with 270 Woodcuts (chiefly by the eminent Artist-Antiquary, the late F. W. FAIRHOLT, F.S.A.), and a Plate of Alphabets. This Work embraces nearly all the original matter that has already appeared in the Author's "History of Jewish Coinage" (194), and its "Supplement" ("Numismatic Chronicle," N.S. 1874-1876), as well as the new critical corrections which bring the subject up to the knowledge of the present day. The object of the work is to give a full and detailed account of all that is known of the Monetary System of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with engravings of every attainable specimen, as well as of the alphabet in use among the Jews and other nations cognate with them. The plan of the work has also been so constructed, that it will be easy to refer to any one period and to ascertain what coins were then in circulation in Judæa, and to what extent the surrounding nations, whether Persians, Greeks or Romans, exercised their influence-either by conquest or superiority of art-upon the Jews. Chapter I. gives a full résumé of the early use of silver and gold as a medium of exchange and commerce among the Hebrews before the exile, illustrating the employment of the precious metals in Egypt. 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Even the most advanced students have scarcely escaped from the leading strings which Chinese lexicographers and etymologists have imposed upon them, and are only now beginning to examine for themselves the linguistic questions which hitherto they have been content to view through the eyes of native grammarians. It is high time that these ceased to be their main supports; and, though the effort to walk alone may at first occasion some flounderings, the result will be that they will attain a sure footing, and a firm step onwards. That they have been so long content to follow in the footprints of the native authorities need not surprise us. The pretensions set forth by Chinamen to the possession of an unbroken history from the earliest ages both their race and language, and the vast literature which has been collected on both subjects, have produced the impression that there is nothing more to be learnt about them, and that the people are to be viewed as occupying the same ethnic position that they have held from all time, and that the written characters by which they now express on paper their thoughts are precisely those which the Chinese Cadmus designed from the footprints of birds and the marks on the back of a tortoise. But, after all, this much-vaunted history is not sufficiently far-reaching to satisfy our advancing requirements. Its first chapters represent a small band of Chinese immigrants settling down in a territory in the north-eastern provinces of the modern empire, and surrounded on all sides by aboriginal tribes into whose midst they had forced them selves like a wedge. We find these strangers possessed of These subjects have for some years formed the study of M. Terrien de Lacouperie, whose scientific training as a philologist has eminently qualified him for the task to which he has devoted himself. As yet he has only advanced part of the way towards the conclusion of the whole matter; but the results he has already arrived at are of very considerable importance, and are based upon grounds which command our acceptance. Under his guidance we trace back the modern characters through the changes they underwent, partly in obedience to political necessities, in the fourth century and during the Ts'in (B.C. 255-200) and the Chow (1122 B.C.-255 B.C.) dynasties to a time when they were used phonetically to represent an agglutinative language. We must throw on one side the idea that Chinese was originally a monosyllabic tongue. Linguistic history as yet furnishes no instance of an originally monosyllabic language, and the monosyllabism of modern Chinese is, like that of the Othome, Euroc, and Yoruba lauguages, due to decay arising from the laziness of the |