Mycenæ; a narrative of researches and discoveries at Mycenæ and Tiryns

New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co, 1878. — 489 p.It has been with much reluctance that, at the persevering request of Dr. Schliemann, I have undertaken to write a Preface to his Mycenean volume. I have managed perhaps, though with long intermissions of the pleasant labour, to maintain a tolerable acquaintance with the text of Homer; and the due establishment of the points of contact between that text and the remains from Mycenae is without question one; of the essential aims, to which comment on this work requires to be addressed. But I have a horror of all specialism which travels beyond its proper province ; and in this matter I am at best no more than a specialist, probably, too, not one of very high pretensions. I have not that practised skill, that comprehensive outlook over the whole field of Hellenic, and other than Hellenic archaeology, which has conferred upon Mr. Newton his well-earned fame. The just conclusion from these premisesvappears to be, that I ought to have declined a charge quodbferre recusent humeri