164 LIFE OF SIR JOHN LUBBOCK ch. 



Amat-Mamu exchanges one large house for 3 small 

 ones and a money payment of 70 shekels of silver. 



(No. 92,532, B.C. 3200.) 

 About B.C. 2060 a man bartered oil to the value 

 60f shekels of silver for a number of slaves. 



(No. 92,547.) 



The Tablets sound wonderfully modern, and 

 are of special interest in their evidence of women 

 holding property. 



Notice of this little book on coins, in which 

 much learning was epitomised, may be concluded 

 with the following : 



Skibo Castle, Abdgay, N.B., 

 June 10th, 1902. 



Dear Lord Avebury — I am delighted to receive 

 from you a Copy of the history of Coins and Currency. 



We had a fight for the Gold Basis as you know. I 

 wrote some articles on the subject — one of which had 

 a circulation of five millions; we do things on a big 

 scale, and the Campaign Committee did this. 



I send you a Copy of it in the Book Empire of Business, 

 A.B.C. of Money. 



I am just now in a strange position — the reputed 

 publisher of two books, Gospel of Wealth, etc., and this 

 other. 



I only said to my two friends help yourselves, you 

 are welcome to publish anything I have written which 

 I am free to give you. 



They went to work and selected. I got first Copies 

 as presentation Copies, that's all. — Yours sincerely, 



Andrew Carnegie. 



P.S. — If you visit the North should be glad to have 

 you with us here. — A. C. 



On the invitation of Mr. Edmund Gosse, 

 given on behalf of the Society of Authors, Lord 

 Avebury came on the Committee to decide (in 

 the absence of a British Academy of Letters) on 

 the candidate for the Nobel prize for literature, 

 and was appointed Chairman. The choice of 



