Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-18

school has the money. But ss its school
 is the poorest of the lot, its work SO far
 does not compare with the work accom- plished by the others. Details, interest ing to students, would tire the general reader, though there are some points
 which may be mentioned The Greek.
 the German and the French schools are
 government institutions, supplied with
 funds by their respective governments
 of the funds supplied. One trouble with
 the American school So far has been that
 it hasn't had control of its own funds.
 This point will be discussed further
 along. Of the outside schools the French
 has by far the largest ediice and is 3D.
 parently the best supplied with cash by
 its home government. The German school
 has better situation and seems larve
 enough for all purposes The Enelish
 and American schools are close together.
 quite out of town and at a very 1noou,.
 fortable distance from points of interest
 and study. The American building seems
 in other respects well adapted to its pur-
 pose and quite large enough for the sc-
 commodation of all the archaeological in-
 terest the United States are at present de-
 veloping. There is naturally rivalry be-
 tween the schools as to which shall make
 the biggest finds; and the schools womb
 not be composed of human beings did they
 not crack up their own finds and belitfle
 the finds of the other fellows. The su-
 preme joy of & school is to detect an error
 on the part of one of its rivals. So long
 as this rivalry Is courteous and eood-ns.
 tured it is excellent; because it produoes
 the liveliest attention and keenest sharp. ening of wits. That the French and the Germans should love one another srcheo- logically is not to be expected. Their dis cussions are sharp and sometimes wicked. and in many of thsm the French have by no means come out second best. Nothing seems to do the French more good intel. lectualiy than thorough spanking. Af- | ter the downfall of the first Nspoleon France electrified Europe by the briiliancy I and erudition of her writers and inyes,i- | gators Then as now the fine arts were | the special objects of study. Before the | time of Lsborde and Quartrieme de Ouin- cy there were no regular, logical and sci sntihc works on the monuments of anti quity. They laid pathways in which the rest of Europe followed, and in which for many yesrs Germany has been leading. Since Sedan there has been lively awak- ening ot French erudites, and the new school of French archsologists is not one whit behind the German in any particnIsr and ahead of it in many. A German loves investigating for its own sake. He would as leave investigate sn old shoe as an old statue, and can write as many learned pages about the one ss about the other. A Frenchman is governed by sentiment and by love of the beautiful He will not waste time investigating unworthy objects, but concentrates his efforts where ethics and esthetics guide and point. He cares as little whether when Pausanias left the Temple of Zeus at Olympia he turned to the right or the left as do you or I; though Germans will fight over the point for months and fill hundreds of pages of their with arguments.
 Iou will be surprised to find how young are the men whose names are resoupdipp through the whole universe of learning. Dorpfeld, the director of the German school, is but thirty-two. l. Homolls. who is at the head of the French school, must be still younger. Lechat. of the French school, whose writings about the newest discoveries are the best reading and .he safest guide, is still in the twenties. Colignon is not forty. Solomon Reinach, O whom they all look up, is only thirty 'ne. But these men selected their course when boys, or had it selected for them. All their energies have been exercised in 'ne direction, and in their respective coun- .ries they found the best training for the 'pecisl result desired. The United States will have no archeologists worthy to rank with Reinach or Dorpfeld until its uuiver- | sites provide the instruction necessary to start the career; and instructors with warm | to make the career attractive. | Perhaps after all the bread and butter oues- ton Is the incentive. If there were not hundreds of art schools and srt museums | in France and Germany awaiting directors, | and hundreds of art and archaeological pro in theiruniversi,ies which must be kept filled, the Athenian schools of France and Germany would amount to no more than does the American school to-day Ir than is likely to for decades to come. But sll these matters are too serious for newspaper writing. When home once nore come up Prospect Hill and discuss hem, and any other cognate ones you may hink of; for with eyes and ears wide open n Athens for a fortnight you gaiu facts and deas to keep a universe twirling for a cen iury. Besides there are shoutings under ihe window to pat a stop to writing A procession of the followers of Triputis is meeting procession of the followers of Ine of the other statesmen, and the two Ire swearing Greek sEears at one another md making Greek faces If it were not
 hat policeman is near by and soldier round the corner they might scratch and bite The evening paper moreover states hat Professor - has been compelled to | resign his professorship because caught in shipping antiques from the country, a prime offence in Greece. The account 'tates that he was allowed to resign, and was not dismissed, because on examina- ion the antiques proved to be bogus In- ,ide of six months the professor will be prime minister. And of such are the Greeks. FERNANDEZ.