A.G.
Alteration of Title-pages.—Among the advertisements in the last Quarterly and Edinburgh Reviews, is one which replies to certain criticisms on a work. One of these criticisms was a stricture upon its title. The author states that the reviewer had a presentation copy, and ought to have inquired into the title under which the book was sold to the public before he animaverted upon the connexion between the title and the work. It seems then that, in this instance, the author furnished the Reviews with a title-page differing from that of the body of his impression, and thinks he has a right to demand that the reviewers should suppose such a circumstance probable enough to make it imperative upon them to inquire what the real title was. Query, Is such a practice common? Can any of your readers produce another instance?
M.
Weights for Weighing Coins.—A correspondent wishes to know at what period weights were introduced for weighing coins.
He has met with two notices on the subject in passages of Cottonian manuscripts, and would be glad of farther information.
In a MS. Chronicle, Cotton. Otho B. xiv.—
"1418. Novæ bilances instituuntur ad ponderanda aurea Numismata."
In another Cottonian MS., Vitell. A. i., we read—
"1419. Here bigan gold balancis."
H.E.