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developing knowledge of Keltic language and literature. 

 The learned Dr. Krauss, than whom there is no more com- 

 petent judge, in referring to this splendid performance, 

 does not hesitate to affirm, ' * No man could have done better 

 than this brave college girl, whom I would wish to greet 

 across the Channel with a cordial Macte virtute." 



The women archaeologists so far mentioned, with the ex- 

 ception of Queen Caroline Murat, were conspicuous as writ- 

 ers rather than active investigators in the field. There have 

 been, however, quite a number who have won distinction as 

 " archaeologists of the spade" women who, either alone or 

 with their husbands, have superintended excavations in 

 different lands, which have yielded results of untold scien- 

 tific value. Among the most conspicuous of these are Mme. 

 Sophia Schliemann, Mme. Dieulafoy and the enterprising 

 Yankee girl, Miss Harriet A. Boyd. 



Of these the first named is the wife of the late Dr. Henry 

 Schliemann, who immortalized himself by his famous ex- 

 cavations at Troy, Tiryns and Mycenae enterprises which 

 solved for us the great problem of nearly thirty centuries 

 and demonstrated in the most startling manner "the truth 

 of the foundations on which was framed the poetical con- 

 ception that has for thousands of years called forth the 

 enchanted delight of the educated world. " During his 

 meteoric career as an archaeologist, Schliemann was able 

 to realize the dreams of his youth, and succeeded in unveil- 

 ing the mystery that had so long hung over Sacred Ilios, 

 and to give the heroes of the Iliad a local habitation on the 

 rediscovered Plain of Troy. And his glorious achieve- 

 ments we must credit largely to that brave and devoted 

 woman his wife who was ever at his side to share in 

 his trials and labors and to raise his drooping spirits in 

 hours of depression, or when hostile criticism treated him 

 as a visionary in the pursuit of a chimera. 



Mrs. Schliemann is a Greek lady who was born and bred 

 under the shadow of the Acropolis and a worthy descend- 



