New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-08-01
DIR. SCHLIEMANN'S NEW BOOK

| HE HIMSELF GIVES AN ACCOUNT OF III.
ro RE published IN SEPTEMBER. SIMULTANEOUSLY,
| tNIyIpsIc LONDON AND NEw-YoRK-THE VOL
UME TO OPEN WITH AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
CONTENTS or THE BooK-DR. scHLIEMANN ON
THE STUDY OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE-THE EN-
THUsIAsM WHICH MAKES HARD WORK LIGHT
fypoa AN oCcAsfosAL CORRESPONDENT THE TRIBUsEl
| BERLIN July 19.-Whie in Leipsic a short time
| ago | was sitting one day at table d'hote in the
Hotel de Prusse, when noticed approaching the
| table q man of medium height who was rather
| thick set and stopped little. He was dressed III
| brown suit Of some simple hight material. and wore
| a graysh stubby mustache but no beard A PAIR
of spectacles stretched around rather broad face,
| and the head was thnly covered with dry hair. In
fact, had before me Dr. Henry Schliemann. the
| celebrated Greek Archaeological, who had torn him
self away from his favorite studies for moment IN
| order TO supply the demands of the inner man.
| Dr. Schlicmann has been buried in the quiet old
| university town of Lepsic for more than two
months busily engaged in preparing for the press an
| important work on Troy, which will be published
| in September simultaneously, by +. A. Brockhaus
at Lelpsic, by John Murray ut London,
| and by Harper & Brothers at Now-York. The book
will be an imperial octave of some eight hundred
pages illustrated by an excellent map, many plans,
a large number of views, and by about 1000 differ
en-: characteristic types Of objects discovered at the
excavations on the site OF Troy. For the most part
the Trojan antiquities unique, but whenever
there are apaloga i'll other collections those dHaloGa
are always carefully pointed out.
DIR. sCIiLIEMANN's AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
DIR. Schemann has furnished me with the
following resume of the contents of The vol
ume. lie divides the book into eleven parts.
| FIRST comes the Autobiography. This portion OF
the work is not prompted by vanity the Doctor
remarked "bnt by a desire to show how the pnr-
suits of my later life have been suggested by and
have been the natural consequence of the impress
sons received i'll my earliest childhood and that
| the pckaxc and spade for the excavation of Troy
and Myccnse were both forged and shdrpcned in the
little village of Meclenbur9 in which passed eight
years of my earliest childhood. shall only touch
mon my life IN California in order that may dwell
at length upon my days in the ORIENT in tbs midst
of my fav0rlte studies. also found 1t necessary
to relate how obtained the means which enabled
me in the autumn of my life to reaize the gigantic
| projects formed when poor little boy. But L
! fatS,r myself that the manner I'M which nave EN-
ployed nv time aud the use have made Of wealth,
! will meet with universal APPRECIATION and that my
autobiography may aid in diflusng among the n
teIigent public Of all countries taste for the high
and noble pursuits which have sustained my courage
durng the hard TRIALS of life and winch promise TO
sweeicn the days yet lett me to live.
AS the book is altogether scientific work., con-
timed the Doctor, 4" u historical account Of the
excavations would be out of place in the text but
as this is a subject of great interest have joined 1t
to nv autobiography and told the story OF the mr.
earthing of Troy and Ithaca. The materials for the
book il will thus he SEEN have been obtained not
without much toll and expense. The Turkish Gov
ernmcnt III Asia Minor, like the Greek Government
HIM a.pa
in the way of the prosecution of my work. While
paving my Greek workmen at the rate of about four
hundred francs day. have had also to stand the
expense of supporting Government spies sent to
| watch me"
| now HE GREEK LANGUAGE SHOULD BE TAUGHT.
- have availed myself OF the opportunity afforded
me by this autobiography 10 dwell at some
length on the erroneous method by which the Greek
| language is taught in America ami England In
fact think 1t cruel injustice to iniict for eight
years upon an unhappy pupil language of which.
| when he leaves college, he knows hardly more than
when he first began To learn It. As causes of these
miserable results accuse IN the first place, the
arbitrary and atrocIous pronunciation OF Greek
usual in America and England, aud in the second
placo the erroneous method employed according
to which the pupil learns to disregard the accents
entirely, and to consider them as mere
|
sttutc a most important auxiliary in
learning the language. What happy effect could
be produced on general education, and what an
| enormous stimulus could be given to scientific puT
suits if intelligent youths could obtain IN eighteen
months not only thorough knowledge OF that
| most divine and most sOnorOus language which was
spoken by Homer and Plato, aud could learn the
latter tongue as IL living language never TO for
get it And bow easily, at how small an expense
could the change be made. detailed account of
the method recommend will be found in my book.
| got the dci at the commencement OF a London
college TO which was invited some tim, There
were orations in English, German, French Latin
and Greek. | understood them all except those in
Greek. of which | did not understand single
word preach no idle theories, but stubborn facts,
and ! ought, therefore, to be listened tor
FURTHER CONTENTS or THE BOOK.
The second division of the book will consist of a
full description of the country of the TrOJans, its
mountains, promontories, rivers, valleys its
geology botany zoology, history. well its all
| important ethnology and phiology. 3. Then will
follow criticisms of all ancient and modern litera-
lures on Troy. 4. The anhor will then take up the
| first city of Troy. the ruins of which are on the
rocks of Hissark at n depth of from forty to fifty
feet below the surface. D. The second city. Bronze
was in both cities still unknown, but gold silver
and copper known. In both cities were found
five axes of Jade Cnephrte, which prove
that the Inhabitants had immgrated from the
highlands of Asia 9. The third the burnt city.
which ten treasures were found Here bronze as well
as the ant of soldering, known. the geology of
thestrata of the debris of this most remarkable burnt
city, AZ well the strata of the two preceding cities
and all the following cities, is mnutely described
| by Professor Rudolph Wicklow. of Berlin, En-.
Burwouf of Paris; and Dr. Schliemann Here were
found five jade axes and three more in the following
cities. T. The fourth city. s. The fifth city. Both
of these cities are prehistoric settlements. g. The
sixth city Lydian settlement all the pottery show
| ING the very greatest resemblance to the most an