The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1880-12-19
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

ILIos: THE CITY AND COUNTRY OF THE TRoJANs.
OF Troy and throughout the Troad In the Years ISL
r Msarv aH
Remains, y 'iMycen@' etc. with Preface,
Appendices, and Notes by Professors Rudolph
il. Brugsch- Bey, P. Ascherson, NJ. A: :Postolaccas,
NJ. f. Burnouf, Mr.. y. Calvert, and MIR. a. j.
Dufreid; With Maps and aeont l. 500 Illustrations;
Hrothers Franklin Square. 1881. From Robert
Beall, +s5 Pennsylvania avenue
-. A few years ago students of Homeric lit
erature were astonished at the results which were
said to have been obtained by an obscure explorer,
who was making excavations on one OF the supposed
sites of the Troy OF the Iad There were then many
high authorities who believed that the great epic
rather record OF vague traditions than historical
poem which described with faithfulness, II with
poetic eIaggeraton, scenes which actually occurred
and personages who really lived and died, and who
still that 1t was no longer possible to
locate definitely the site Of the Troy Of Homer. But
DIR. Schllemann, who had devoted the leisure hours
Of busy life to the study Of Greek history and Greek
literature, became convinced that the Iiad was not
mythical but an historical poem, and he set out to
prove his theory by finding and Identifying the exact
spot made memorable by the Siege narrated by Homer
The result been OF the remarkable archeo
logical discoveries given to the world. Burnt
City,, which had lain for many ages hidden beneath
Lnt ueDrib haS Occh iniu anu
the student has been given fresh basis Of nvestga-
tion and criticism In evidence that Homer descrb
ing with great accuracy actual and not an imagined
Troy ON this unique Hill OF Hissarlik the fortunate
explorer discovered the ruins Of less than seven
cities Of different periods And the third Of these from
the bottom the scene Of "a great devournR
molten and made fluid like wax 80 that CONCEALED
fire, IN which the clay walls OF the buildings were
drops glass bear ytpess the present day to the
mighty condagrattop And IN spite this continues
Prof. virchow what riches have been brought light
out OF the ashes Treasures Of gold one after another
presented themselves TO the astOnished eye In that
remote time when man was SO little advanced In thu
knowledge Of the earth aud Of his own power In thai
time, when the poet tells u.s. the king sons Were
shepherds, the possession Of such treasures Of thu
precious metals and that In the hnest and most cost,
| workmanship, must have become famous far ant
| wide Tho splendor OF this chieftain must hay,
awakened envy and covetousness and the ruin Of hi
high fortress can signify nothing else thap bis owl
downfall and the destruction OF his race. Was thi
chieftain Prfamj Was this city Sacred Hiosf NJ
one win ever fathom the question whether thes
were the names which used when the celebrated
king sti looked out from his elevated fortress oye
the Trojan plain to the Hellespont. Perhaps til
| legend had handed DOWN no more than the story o
the victorious enterprise OF undertaken from tn
| West to overthrow the kingdom and the city. Bu
who will doubt that on this spot terrible conques
was really won In fight against garrison. who no
only defended themselves. their families. and thei
houses with weapons Of stone and bronze, but VIII
also had great wealth In gold and silver ornament
and furniture TO protectr II was here where Europ
| and Asia for the hrst time encountered In war 0
exerination, It here that the only decisive vic
tory was won In fight, which the West gained owe
the East the soil OF Asia during the whole tn'
down TO Alexander the Great. And now, under ou
eyes, this site has been again disclosed. Whoever III
divine bard was, he must have stood upon this hi
OF Hissarlik-that is the Castle. or Fortress-l -an
have looked out thence over land and sea. ~
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