The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-05-20

edge, and the palace is now a per-
feet example of its period.
In the great hall Signor volpi Of
fered Mr.. Morgan banquet. The
guests sat at a fourteenth century
table and ate from fourteenth cen
fury plates-but in the twentieth
century fashion. They were served
with fourteenth century dishes
cooked in a fourteenth century htch-
en- and so on. The table was illum-
mated with candles, on iron stands
and at each end stood high candle
labra holding a multiplicity of can
dies, while about the room were
torches, casting picturesque flick
ering light.
Mr.. Morgan motored out to the
Villa Palmieri, which also dates from
the fourteenth century and has been
restored and furnished by a lover of
art, this time an American, Mr.. Ellis.
worth. Mr.. Morgan was especially
impressed by the gardens and the
celebrated view toward Florence.
BUNYAN RELIC FOR SALE.
LONDON, April 29.-It has been
decided by the Bedford Library Insti-
tute to offer it's copy of Fox's Book
OF Martyrs" believed to have been
the one that belonged to John Bun.
yam when he was in prison, for sale
at public auction at Sothebv's on
May 25. Efforts are already making
to arouse British patriotism to the
point of bidding high enough to pre-
serve the book for this country.
Two manuscript copies of La
Rochefoucauld's "Maximes" also will
be put up for sale at the same date.
LOST ATLANTIS IN AFRICA.
LONDON, April 2O.-An interesting
controversy is going on in regard to
the declaration recently made by DR.
Frobenius, a German traveller that
ne had discovered the site of the lost
Atlantis, referred to by Plato in the
'Timaeus."
In life, the sacred capital of the Yo-
ruba country in the British COLONY or
southern Nigeria, DR.. Frobenius
found a bronze head and some other
works of art which he declared r. he
evidences of the lost civilization
Ihere has, by the way, been dis.
pute over the ownership of these
OBJECTS the Doctor saying that he
became legally possessed of them.
while the British commissioner Of tho
district has interviewed, asserting
that the objects are sacred and MOI
to be touched.
Dr' Frobenius's theory is discred-
TIED IN an article by the president of
the Society of Antiouaries n II
Read in the March issue of the Rnr.
hngton Magazine. Mr.. Read speal1s
OF the high possibilities of negro art
and points out that Nigeria is fuu of
monuments of vanished cults 20
mains being constantly unearthed of
winch the natives profess entire ig.
norance. lie, where the bronze head
was Kept in a grove as an object of |
great reverence, under the guardian. |
snip OF an old native priest is q |
town OF considerable Importance in
the locality. The Oni of lie is a kind
OF pope who has the right of crown. |
ing all the chiefs of the various w |
ruoa kingdoms, including the King
OF Benin. 1t is, therefore. a very
likely spot in which to find art treas. |
ures of earlier times.
With regard to the bronze head
ltself, Mr.. Read points out that the
heaudress is peculiar, and that the
upper part of the head above If 20
empty as if cavity had been left
Tor the insertion of a cap or some
otner material. 1t is curious he
adds, that there is in the Rritisb
museum cast of a small terra Gotta
head' also from life, the features Of
winch are practically identical with
tnose OF the bronze, so that there is
no doubt they represent the same
person.
IL is popularity of both the
bronze and the terra Gotta that the
whole face is 1elicately ribbed with
lines which, Mr.. Read says
can hardly be interpreted as repre-
senting tribal marks, although facial
cicatrices are commonly used in
west Africa for that purpose. There
Is always the possibility, of course
that such works of art may have
been brought into the country from
some more civilized region, or may