Morning journal and courier., 1891-03-21
AN ATHENIAN FAMILY,

AN ATHESIAN FAMILY.
 The widow of Dr. Henry Schliemann, it is said, is to continue the work left un- finished by the great archaeologist. Mrs. Schliemann is native Athenian, a cul- tured and elegant woman who has been the devoted companion of her husband, sparing his hardships as we'll as his am bitions and delighting ill all his achieve ments in recovering the works of Hellenic greatness.
 Soon after Dr. Schliemann went to Ath- ems he met Miss Sophia Kastromenos of whom he had heard that she was an en- thusiastic student of Homer, being able to | repeat whole pages without the text. This aroused his admiration and believing that she could comprehend and sympathize | with his aims, he made her his wife and | found her 8 most congenial and helpful | associate.
 | The father of Dr. Schliemann was a Lu- | theran clergyman who made the discover ies of Herculaneum and Pompeii subjects | of conversation with his children and daily recited verses from Voss' German translation of Homer, inspiring his son with the greatest enthusiasm for the ex- l ploits of Hector, Achilles and the rest of l that noted company of heroes. The boy and his father used to dispute about the walls of Hum, the one declaring that not one stone of them remained upon the an cient site, the other that they must be there though buried under the ruin and dust of time, and that some day he would go and dig them out.
 After youth spent in sharp struggle | with poverty and young manhood in the 1 acquisition of wealth, he retired from busi- ness at the age of forty-one, rich beyond his most daring ambition, and master of all continental languages, of ancient and modern Greek, English, Latin and Arabic. Nearly five years were spent in travel, and in the study of universal his tory and archaeology, all this being con- sidered as the means to an end-the full fllment of his boyish promise to unearth the walls of Troy. This he triumphantly citadel at Mycena and the Metropolis of Athens.
 The house of the Schliemanns, called
 ''the palace of Ilion," is, wonderful mu-
 scum of antiquities, the accumulation of
 many years of research, and an ideally
 beautiful home. The library, it's windows
 looking out upon the magnificent ruin of
 the Acropolis, is filled with costly collec-
 tion of books, written in many tongues;
 the walls are hung with paintings and en-
 rihced with Greek inscriptions taken from |
 the character of each room-the whole house, in short, is full of suggestions ot ; ancient and modern art and might be
 compared to a beautifully illustrated
 and illuminated History of Greek ciylliza ton. The children bear Homeric names the boy of eleven years having the stately 1 name of Agamemnon, while the daughter g charming and accomplished young lady now nearly nineteen, wears with muct grace the name of Electors devoted wife the beautiful Andromache.
 Both the widow and the children of Dr , Schliemann are intensely proud of his life
 his achievements and honors. They vii doubtless take up as soon as possible tht work he carried on with so much energ, and unselhsh devotion, not only for hi
 sake, but for the sake of a land for whicl they cherish the spirit of ardent patriot ism.
 THE GRAVE OF SCHLIEMANN AT COLoSUs Sleep at Colonus, sleep as to the hum s Of Homer's chanting; with the golden beam
 or Crocus on thy grave lie down and dream;
 And may the small gray nightingale be dumb,
 No cry from widely rowing runnel come, . That unto thee the Muse, her mighty theme
 Again unfolding may rehearse the sum a That woven hymn of which a e lovely lv fall
 Caught on a comrades voice thrilled thin 7. One day in youth thou hadst no power t U speak,
 I Except to pray to God with bitter tears
 That by his grace thou sometime nights f Michael Field, in The Atheneum. s GLI,iPsES HERE AND THERE. e Mrs. Isabella Bird Bishop, the indefatig