“The selection of documents can be criticised, of course, both for its inclusions and its omissions. But it is quite sufficiently representative to serve as an introduction to the use of numismatic evidence in historical study, which we take to be the main object of the book.” D. G. Hogarth.
+ + – Eng. Hist. R. 21: 547. Jl. ’06. 700w.
“The author is the most competent that could be found in this country. If we think that, written on a somewhat different plan, it might have been more valuable, we hasten to admit that its actual value is very great. It will widen the outlook of every historical student who consults it.”
+ + – Lond. Times. 5: 250. Jl. 13, ’06. 880w.
“Here and there in the volume we find passages containing information which long ago should have been employed as footnotes to history.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 606. S. 29, ’06. 520w.
“The reader will find most of the great problems of Greek numismatics adequately discussed, with a laudable terseness and much sound judgment.”
+ + Sat. R. 102: 400. S. 29. ’06. 810w.
“Mr. Hill has a way of making his learning attractive.”