The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-18

an epistyle, and perhaps the missing parts will be replaced by new stones to such an extent as to restore the western wall to something like what it was in ancient times, before the inser- tion of the Roman windows. The roof and epistyle over the caryatides and the caryatides themselves are still to be strengthened, and the southern wall and the eastern colonnade are probably to be repaired. Some of the details of the work are not yet entirely settled. So far, the work has been done with great care and thoroughness, %nder most competent direction. The Erech- theum was repaired and somewhat al- tered in Roman times, and, after many vicissitudes, was partially restored in 1888. A sentimental protest against the present restoration. Certainly the building will be far more beautiful than it has been since 1888. and will give the spectator a better idea of it's ducted by the Greek archaeological soci- ety. which is also restoring the temple of Appollo at Bassae.
 Other changes in various parts of the city bear witness to the diligent dig ging of archeologists. A large part of what was the market has disappeared, and in it's place one sees the remains of Hadrlan's magnificent library, while to the west of the Acropolis, in the hollow between the Areopagus and the Puyx, a series of ancient streets and houses | ciontu 6O1 for Ia aff sc frara
 occupying exactly the site of ancient
 Athens. This is the place where Prof. Dorpfeld finds the sanctuary of Diony- sus in the marshes. Here also are re- mains of the water works built by Pi-
 sistratus, and In the hill of the Puyx
 are many channels and several cisterns
 and chambers belonging in part to still
 earlier provisions for water supply. Here it is that Prof. Dorpfeld places
 the famous spring of Callirrhoe, chang
 ed by Pisistratus to Enneacrunus.
 But the changes in the museums are even greater than those in the city at large or on the Acropolis. All over Greece, excavations have been going on
 for years with ceaseless activity. and
 the most important portable objects discovered have, with few exceptions, such as the discoveries of Olympia and
 Delphi, been brought to Athens. The National museum, in spite of great ad- ditions to it's building, is filled to over flowing. The pricelesss collection of in scriptions is for the most part gather
 ed together in an unroofed courtyard. exposed to all the vcissitudes of wealth ar and xun,.Lxs nf ra1,lrt,tra xzrlainL xrntYld
 be the pride of many a museum in
 western Europe are hidden from sight
 in storerooms where only those who al ready know of their existence are able
 to see them. Even on the Acropolis delicately carved architectural frag- ments are lying exposed to the rain and the dust forslack of room in the muse- ums. To the stranger the chief need of Greece seems to be more museum build ings; but no doubt the native Greek feels more keenly the need of other things. Yet. in spite of lack of rooom
 the museums of Athens offer unparal- leled advantages to the students of iGreeek art and epigraphy Of the con tents of the museums and the changes the past 20 years have wrought therein, only cataiog (and alas! there is no complete catalog of anything in Athens except the collection of vases) can speak in detail. Nor is it possible with
 in the limits of letter even to allude
 to each of the important works of ex- Icavation carried on in the last two de- cades. The visitor is overwhelmed by the number of sites which should be seen, and at each site the excavation \ have some special interest. Among them all, the French excavations al Delphi are pre-eminent. though they may be equaled by the excavations at l Delos. It is to be hoped, also, that our
 own excavations at Corinth, the results
 of which are already important, may be
 continued to satisfactory conclusion
 From Athens Letter in New York Eve ming Post.