5 MAY 1832, Page 21

11. Lectures on the Coinage of the Greeks and Romans,—de-

livered in the University of Oxford, by Dr. EDWARD CARDWELL, —is an important adjunct to history. The investigations are very ingenious; and perhaps no previous author has so clearly shown the service that may be rendered to the history of man by these small monuments, calculated, by theif size, both to escape imme- diate observation and ultimate destruction. This work deserves a more extended notice : should we not be able to give it, let us ob- serve, to all persons interested in scholastic pursuits, that these lectures are not merely numismatic.