Waldstein, Charles: Essays on the art of Pheidias (Cambridge, 1885)

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A CATALOGUE OF ANCIENT MARBLES IN GREAT
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for the still less known private hoards of an- before the author of this work undertook the

tique sculptures for which our country is so labour of description. Professor Michaelis has

remarkable. The book is beautifully executed, achieved so high a fame as an authority in

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THE TYPES OF GREEK COINS. By Percy Gardner,

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be distinctly recommended to that omnivorous treats the subject of numismatics in an attrac-

class of readers—'men in the schools.' The his- tive style and is elegant enough to justify its

tory of ancient coins is so interwoven with and appearance in the drawing-room .... Six-

so vividly illustrates the history of ancient States, teen autotype plates reproduce with marvellous

that students of Thucydides and Herodotus can- reality more than six hundred types of picked

not afford to neglect Professor Gardner's intro- specimens of coins in ever}'- style, from the

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ancient monuments has been applied to its il- to have been that his book should go forth totus
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