Evening star., 1878-01-04
OLD TROY RESURRECrED.
SCHLIEMINN'S REHIRKIBLE DIS
COTERTES.
Lecture by Mr.. Chauncey Hickox.

| INTERESTING LETTER FROM DIR. SCHLIEMANN-
HE Is CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES, AND
| HOLDS IT ks TIE MOST HONORABLE OF TITLES
| HE HAS GONE To CONTINUE HIS ENCAvA-
! TIoNs-wHAT HAS BEEN FOUND AT Old
1RO1-THE OWL-FACED ATHENE-THE TREA-
SURES ENCANATED-THE SUPERB ILIAN
APoLLo-THE CAST At THE CORCoHA,' GAL
IERY.
An audience too small, but quite appTecia-
| tive, faced the cold last evening to hear Mr.
HickoX, and was repaid by a lecture of great
interest. The subject of Schlicmann'S eXcava-
tiOnS in the Tread was made as fresh as To-
days daily newspaper, and by the aid of the
camera and screen, as clear as could possibly
be. After a few words in relation to Schlip-
mann personally, the lecturer read the follow
ing letter from him 10 his old friend in New
York, reminding the hearers that it is the
hasty language of an old friend to an old
/ frieQd, not intended for the public eye ana
not to be regarded rs such:
SCHLIEMANN's LETTER.
LONDON, Sept. 9. 1S17.
M Dear F'rieRd JdnSseR:-I begy0u len thou
sand p3rdous for not paving you my visit ds
promised. hut all the year / have been work
ing like negro slave Oh my book, which is 10
appear on the 10th November al Scribncr'S in
y. Y, at John Murray'S here, at Hachette
Len czE IN and rfr Gi whan d9 a6 @ B62 SsE
the first copy. Before seeing the book YOU
cannot imagine what trouble ii has been tn
me tn compose il. Tor the objects had to treat
were 4 new world 10 archaeology. and had to
! TauSack the Greek classics over aud over
again 10 find some light in the darkness in
Whicll-in many reSpects-l was vaguely CROP
ing. But gradually the darkness became tWi-
light. and the twilight became daylight. and /
now feel bold to hope that the book Will render
great service To science, and that il viii in
crease and develop everywhere the taste fOr
classical studies in general and for H1meric
archaeology in particular wrote the book in
English, anu translated il afterward into Ger
man and French. How IatigUing those trans
latlOnS arC. and what an enormous labor it is
10 correct simultaneously the proofs O! a Iar.1.
volume in three hnguagcS-that knows only
he who has passed through Il. This time |
have not omitted To state. On the title D3 &c of
the four different editions. that | am an United
states citizen; On the ether hand have made
no mention Of anyOf the innumeraOle honorary
memberships with which | have been over
whelmed both i'm England anu Germany. be
cause my l. ;. citizenship is by itself the
| greatest honor To which my ambition could
ever aspire. Though IN my vocation Of drch,p
Ol0giSt and explorer The fortune is no. allotted
To lnc 10 live on American soil. YET rs long - |
bIcalhe my efforts shall tend to TO honor tu
tie country of myadOpliOn: and when bent
down 10y haTdShipS and difficulties. the though
that ] have the warm sympathy Of the great
American people. who will mourn il | succumb
and applaud II | Succeed-,hat Thought viii
| always infame my energy and stimulate me to
! Try to render impoSSibilitieS possible,
Il have been living here there weeks iH"Q9-
| HtO in order To accelerate the publication oi
| my book. and having brought il under press
leave today again for Paris, whore my dear
wife is waiting for me. ON the list instant /
( have 10 leave for Athens. whence I hone To
/ return in the beginning of November. As
( soon the TrOad is safe | shall cXcayate there
/ the remainder Uf Troy: but at present the
/ Plain OF Troy and the Ida mountains are in
Tested by deNerterS from the army. who have
turned brigaEd>. Thus (b"foTe the war is
OVER ii viii be impossible 10 continue the eN-
c;VatiOnS. But ia the meantime | may rN-
! plorc the island Of lthdka, which is Still virgin
! soil tO archaeology: or | may eNcayate The an
/ ci6nt iInT;rum ON the island OF SambS.
THE TROJAN QUESTION, pro AND con.
| Ia the few words defining his own position
! before giving himself 10 the calculation q
! what the explorer hes done, the lecturer said :
/ am well aware that men Who should b."
/ OF the reality of Troy than we knew before
! Schliemann began to dig hat he simply uu-
! covered an old fhenrcian tradingpOSt. which
! proves nothing. But | would give. more
| weight than this to his discoveries and 10 the
| traditions underlying The lliad and the Greek
; tragedies. u is probable that the early Greeks
dld destroy ln the Troad. three thousand years
! aG" the fortress or town whose ruins he laiJ
! bare, and that this facs il 1T the bottom Oi the
| lliad But do not believe that the graves at
Mycen:c ielong to the same period. The work
| nlanSllp displayed in the allSgrabungcn there
! shows them To be later The date of the My
! censfn objects cannot he fixed now. 1t may
be almost anywhere from JGto9OB.C. These
| things are supplemental TO those found by
! CeSn0la at Cyprus, and need to be studied in
| the light of the New York collection. The
! MNCenspan objects may be contemporary with
! the Had in its present form. But there is an
| unexplained period of several hundred years
between them and the date of those found at
! HiSSarlik, j believe. The Cesnola treasures
| VIII be of the greatest value i'm determining
| the date and significance of those from Myce-
ne. and possibly of those from Hissarik
II we may believe good authority, regard
less OF Schllemann'S own opinion. the auSgrd-
| brungen from HiSSarlik are mique-unlike anV
others knONn-and destitute of AssyTian or
Egyptian influence. Indeed, Francis LenOr-
| mant at once said that they We're TOO old To be
! Trojan. for the reason that their makers had
! not seen the finer forms of AsSyria and Egypt
50 far as we can judge, then, We have these
| facts: lSt. Remains quite different from those
| found elsewhere. ID Remains old enough to
be Trojan. Sd. Remains found about where
Troy ought to be. 18th: Remains which We
cannot otherwise account for. 80 much would
| seem to be solid ground. Then comes much
interesting speculation. like the identification
OF the tower, the seean gate and the Owl-fdced
! Athene. which is worth considering.
But the theory that the HisSarlic remains
I are 81 old and the workmanship from Ny
| cenae so much more recent, encounters this
Troublesome fact: There We're meagre inscrip
| tlonS at tHissarlik-resembling CypriOte, unin-
! telligible, but still inscriptiOnS-while none
| were found at Mycenae. Another troublesome
| fact is the resemblance between some of the
! CesnOla pottery and the Trojan. This reSem-
biance III some Instances II sufficiently clear
! To make one doubt whether the Trojan pottery
| IS 50 very unique after all, whether il j. so
| destitute of foreign influence and whether
those who have told us so ever fairly consid-
cred all Of that from Cyprus But we need not
yet give up Troy for this. Perhaps Schlie-
! manns mistake is in peOpling his Troy so di-
rectly from Central Asia, and not giving suffi-
cient consideration to its relations with the
! coast of Syria.
MIR. Hickox then, as he expressed it. began
| TO talk in the Language of Schliemann select
! ing nom the great discOverers work the S-
| llent points. and entering in Schliemann's
| spirit, into the wonder land he revealed He
gave to those who have not particularly
studied such subjects comprehension of the
discoveries, their significance, the scenery
surrounding them, the Whole situation. such
as few could ever get from from Schliemann's
| OF any sther books 1t is impossible i'm our
| space To note the many suggestive and yalu-
! able comments. the fruit of wide reading in a
! sympathetic spirit, that accompanied the illus
! tIatiOns.
! THE C0RCORAN GALLERY-CAST OF THE III4N
APOLLO.
! lie gave. what ought TO be particu-
! lariy Interesting TO WashingtOnianS, what
| Is known and reasonably conjecturable about
| the fine Ilian Apollo. a east of which was
| sent to the Smithsonian by DR.. Schliemann.
/ and Is now in the Corcoran gallery Ii was
/ found in June, 1877 where il had been thrown
down, probably 10y the early Christians from
! It's place over the entrance tO temple of
/ ApO!iu. which stood toward the northern mart