The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-11-15
FOREIGN NOTES.

Lord Wolseleys revised edition Of The Soldiers
Pocket.BoOk" VIII shortly he issued. We are as
sured, says the Pictorial Woi{d, that he has made
atonement TO the correspondents for the severe
terms In which In the previous editions OF bis works
something at any rate OF his celebrity to the efforts
thai he has hardly recognized the fact that, with ali
their faults they have much at heart as he him
self In he Interests OF their country.
"By the blood OF all the Howards," this is TOO
bad When the highest pedlgrees Of the proudest
arstocracy attacked, where will conoclasm end
Here we have the Tendon TruH saying: "Mr.
Walter Rye has published History OF Norfolk
man pedgTees The Towards, 1t would seem, are
descended from h0g-ward. whose business 1t was
70 mind hogs; the Townshends from one John attic
Townsend, who was small tenant farmer In 1898;
the Bulwers from the bu-ward, as the man was
called who looked after the manor bull"
The further examination OF the recently dis
covered papyri at Vienna has led to the discovery
OF an Interesting and valuable fragment OF Homer's
"odyssey.n This copy dates from the second
century. Hitherto these papyri were not known to
contain more OF Homer than some fragments OF the
/" HAD Another still more Interesting discovery
10 that OF strip OF Arabian paper dating from the
ninth century, and containing woodcut with orna-
wood-cutting probably OF Arabian origin, or that
y was, at all events, known 10 the Arabs In the
ninth century
"a great sensation" says the London Truth, has
been excited In Germany by pamphlet which has
been published at Dusseldorf entitled The estab
lishment OF the Temporal Power by Prince Bis
mark. The authorship IL shrouded In mystery, hut
il written with extraordinary ability, and 10 EVIL
IDENTIFY the work OF ardent Catholic who considers
that the Increase In the power and Bpend0r OF the
Roman Church and the re-cstablishment OF the
P0pe's temporal power have become a political
necessity OF the first order for Austria, for whom
new era Is opening In the foundation OF empire In
the East which shall revive the glores Of the ancient
Danubian empire. The author confidently looks
forward TO the day when the Pope shall say mass
In ~. sophia
The Beiiiner FhHOiOgische BOchenscli' IN reports
very Interesting discovery at Eleusls. Some
years ago, as 10 well known. the remains Of great
assembly hall, supposed 10 be used In the ceremony
Of Initiation into the Eleusinan mysteries, were laid
bare. This assembly hall was supported by forty
two columns, and was planned by Ikinos, the archi-
iect OF The Parthen0n. There was always the pre-
sumption that 1t was erected ON The ruins OF an old
ton has now become q certainly. Digging deep
down below the foundations OF the Iktlnos temple
the excayators have come upon the remains OF a
square building, undoubtedly The older sanctuary.
IL MS exactly into the northeast angle OF the temple
ofIktinos,so that part OF the north and east walls of
the earlier and later buildings are precisely coinc-
dent II Ii the Intention OF the government for the
better preservation OF these most valuable ante
Decentralization remains, to Nil In the excavations
again, but In such manner as 70 leave the upper
part Of the ancient structure Just visible.