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...effect which was actually produced, however, disturbed every mint in Europe. We have to read the accounts of the scarcity of this or that metal with a certain degree of incredulity; because the people of that time believed the overflow of one metal was an actual loss to the country, although it really had beneficent effects...
General Walker now directed his attention to England at this period. Before the close of the seventeenth century her monetary literature was enriched by the writings of such men as Somers, Montague, Locke, and Newton. In 1666 and act of Charles II opened the mint to coinage of both metals gratuitously. This law continued in force till 1798. It was the policy of the government to treat gold as subsidiary to silver, and leave the guinea to find its own value in silver money...
...persons-presumably architects-meet in their studios, and naturally talk of that which is nearest to them, namely, of art. The conversations, nine in number, centre upon painting, sculpture, music and literature, but they are always "straying from the direct" and touch all manner of subjects. They contain a mint of information, and show the many-sidedness of Mr. Story's intellect; he is as much at home with the Greek drama as with the English poet, with history as with philosophy, with mesmerism as with criticism. He quotes frequently and aptly from well known authors from all ages, from...
Professor Shaler, who goes to Philadelphia next week in his capacity as Mint Commissioner, will have his place in N. H. 4 supplied by Mr. Davis...
Prof. N. S. Shaler has been appointed one of the board of U. S. Mint Commissioners...