The Little Book of Money

Peter Martin is a senior projects editor at the University of Ottawa
Press.

Hardly bigger than a playing card and not a whole lot thicker, this
small book of quotations about money contains little of value for
readers. Good “quote books” are fathomless delights. For example,
while searching the Oxford Minidictionary of Quotations for a quote on
quotes (Churchill: “It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read
books of quotations”), I found myself being led to other quotations.
Nothing like that happens with the The Little Book of Money. It is an
eccentric but charmless selection from secondary sources (not including
the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations), and it is slovenly and
inconsistent in its attributions. “Money” is the key word here, and
not just in the book’s title.