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be quickened by a noble emulation, and, as iron sbarpeneth. iron, 6o 

 we and our brethren elsewere may derive help from one another 

 in their onward path. The present is a time of extraordinary 

 energy in exploration and discovery abroad. The ore thus industri- 

 ously gathered must, when passed through the crucible of wise and 

 philosophic minds, yield pure metal, and will with certainty place the 

 study of comparative archseology upon a surer basis. In Eome, the 

 excavations carried on in past years, and still in progress, are 

 of indescribable interest to the antiquary. The Porum Eomanum, 

 and many monuments of Imperial Eome, have been excavated, and 

 most important results have accrued from the same works carried 

 on within the area of the Coliseum, while, in the process of the 

 erection of the new city, innumerable objects of art have been dis- 

 covered, portions of statues, mosaic pavements, fresco paintings, 

 which are being all carefully preserved and put together, and it is 

 proposed to have local museums in each district, in which the principal 

 objects may be exhibited. 



Again, at Ephesus, the works of excavation carried on by Mr. 

 "Wood, at the site of the Temple of the Ephesian Diana, reveal to us 

 the characteristics of a school of Hellenic art which arose in Asiatic 

 Grreece when Athenian artists sought refuge and employment there 

 after the period when Athens still suffered from the effects of the 

 Peloponnesian war, for it is now well known that the rebuilding of 

 the Temple of the Ephesian Diana was contemporaneous with Scopas 

 and Praxiteles, one of whom, if not both, indeed, contributed to its 

 sculptural decorations. The noble fragments which have reached this 

 country, and now stand in the British Museum, show that the spirit 

 of Hellenic art still lived to give witness of its noble origin. 



To go still further back in the history of art, the results of 

 Erench and English enterprise, the labours of such men as Lenormant 

 and Eouque, Charles Newton, and General Cesnola, and Lang, in the 

 Levant and along the west coast of Asia Minor, have added immea- 

 surably to our knowledge of Greek art, which before was but 

 limited. Of the works of the Samian school, described by Pliny and 

 dating four centuries before Christ, nothing was known until the dis- 

 coveries on the Levant; while the Greek sculptures from the west 

 coast of Asia Minor, now in the British Museum, or the objects in the 

 Cast«llani collection, show by such examples as the statue of Demeter, 



