New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-11-19

devise a scheme for the better employment of
the funds? Or, has the benefaction Of the be-
nevolent Quinctilius. like some benefactions
nearer home. been lost altogether? We
will not hint at their having been alienated by
Goths or Vandals, by East-Roman exarchs. or
Lombard princes Can we trust the really dan
gerous characters in these parts Of the world
Popes Popes nephews Roman princes and
Roman cardinals. who pull down buildings and
steal their columns to make their own palaces
and villas? Perhaps some Of them may have
swallowed up the funds which should go in nuts
TO the boys Of Fereninum.
The historian reveals his own native traits
and habits Of study, as it were. unconsciously
Everywhere IL Is as a historian that he looks
at things Pictures and buildings are not viewed
as works Of art; they are considered for the
light they cast on the progress of culture.
With a little care and labor one might Gull
from the pages Of these two small volumes a
series Of paragraphs which would embody when
placed together a respectable. though perhaps
somewhat fragmentary, history OF the arch in
Greece and Italy For he will be able to do, at
least partially, what Freeman himself, gazing
at the openings in the walls Of Tiryns, saw to
be indispensable. There IT, moreover. one as
pect of Tiryns which will give it a special in
thing of the primitive cities of Italy. but to
whom Tiryns itself is his first introduction to
the primitive cities of Greece. He who has
visited Faesulae and Tusculum. he who has
looked thoroughly at Rome itself. will feel a
certain impression come strongly upon him that
his work is imperfect as long rs he keeps himself
on the western side Of the Iodriatic. Tuscu-
lum above all things points to Tiryns." 1t was
a great gain To collect and bring together. as
Dodweil did Greek and Italian examples Of
architecture ut would BE- n greater gain still
to bring together rs many examples as possible
Of the same kind from all parts Of tn" world.
The critical inquirer the votary Of the COM
parative method. will be strengthened in his re-
searches by seeing how. I'm the art of building
as in everything else like effects spring from
like causes That Is TO say. the traveller has
used his eyes in prehistoric Italy and prehistoric
Greece to observe those phenomena which show
how difficult problems in ancient buildings were
solved in practically the same way by races that
may have known nothing Of each other. There
are pages also whore may how the
author Of the unfinished "History Of Sicily and
Of "Federalism" has put in nutshell thoughts
which in those works developed into
chapters. lie brings out wildly the contrast
between the politics Of Eastern Greco with its
single city commonwealth and thos, Of Western
Greece with its comparatively large confedera-
tons. He studies the vacant site OF Veil with
minute attention. in order to show how tina,
Etruscan stronghold must IN the nature Of
things have fallen prey to the Roman power.
And he puts his conclusion I'm line or two
Another Of Frecman's most imporian; char
cieristics tendency t. contro vcrsy--ls eX-
hibited herr and there in these volumes. He |
ugs in the question Of tho comparative anti !
luity OF oxford City and Oxford University m /
order to give great English newspaper yio- /
fnt rap. As traveller in Greece he had ire |
lucnt occasion 10 mention Mr. Mahafy. Though /
~ certainly has respect FOR the Dublin profess |
;or's learning he has absolutely none for his |
historical insight. The result is that h. meyer /
iitcrs word 81 praise without instantly quail /
wing IL. Thus in speaking Of the geographical I
barrier between Athens and Eleusis he
marks: This has been well pointed out BY NJ. /
Nahaffy Il is the kind Of thing which II I
Nahary. so unlucky on some points. is as well .
bile TO take IN any man" Again. In APPROX
ng Of the professor statements aboIt
he geographical separation between Greek
states. H. cnbittcrs the compliment by parcn-
hetic reference e. Mr.. Mahaify. VINO OCCASION
lily arrives AZ urtfu~twofthv conclusions On
hings which J." has not sufficiently studied"
Some Of the literary pecuiiari,c, for which
freeman has been abundauiy ccnsurrI vii.
,e found in these volumes. But they are in
eresting nevertheless, and II Is enough 10 say IN
his case that they had not IN" benefit 90 tn.
uthor's revision. They edited by the
historians daughter. Florence Freeman. one If
he illustrations is a portrait Of Freeman. IN
Which he is figured with barge head and an
mple beard.