Samos and Samian Coins, by Percy Gardner, M.A. (Macmillan and
(1o.), is a reprint of a most valuable article, which many of our readers may have noticed in the Numismatic Chronicle last year. That ibis scholarlike, learned, and exhaustive, is shown by the name of the "Disney Professor of Archasology at Cambridge," which appears on its title-page. The first-half of the volume is really an epitome of the history of Samos as a State ; and Professor Gardner reminds us that it was in the days of Polycrates, its "Tyrant," one of the most powerful States of Greece, and a formidable rival to that of Athens. The Samians of a later date are praised by Pausanias for their excellence in athletic exercises and sea-fights. That they were skilled in other arts is proved by the six pages filled with illus- trations of Samian coins, with which the volume is enriched.
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