The Classics and Museum Study 38 1 



which as a minimum is to be coveted for all ? We will sum- 

 mon courage, and venture, somewhat perhaps ultra crepidam, 

 to sketch it. The child should be made familiar with the 

 contour of Europe and the Mediterranean, with the boot of 

 Italy and the mulberry leaf of Greece. The Greek stories 

 of Hack and Kingsley, and the best parts of Plutarch's Lives 

 and Herodotus' Travels, should have been the pleasures of 

 his leisure hours. He should have been made to comprehend 

 that a century is a hundred years, and that these would com- 

 prise the lives of three generations — his father's, his grand- 

 father's and his own. He will then have realised that different 

 peoples express themselves in different words, and also that 

 there were times in which there were no cannon or guns, no 

 printed books, and in which Christianity had not yet been 

 heard of. At this stage of his attainments he should have 

 been taken through the well-arranged space-for-time History 

 Gallery of an Educational Museum. He will there have 

 learned that Egyptian civilisation long preceded that of 

 Greece, and that the Greeks attained it before the Romans, 

 The relation of that of Rome to the time of Christ will have 

 been impressed upon his memory by observing that the bust 

 of Caesar stands just before well-known symbols of the 

 Crucifixion. He will have seen fragments of Roman pave- 

 ments, engravings of Grecian temples, real Roman horse- 

 shoes, abundance of Roman glass, Roman coins and weapons. 

 He will have been interested in the information that the 

 museum does not contain a Roman stirrup, for the simple 

 reason that the Roman horseman rode without them. Por- 

 traits and busts reminding him of the stories which he 

 formerly listened to will have been shown him, and with a 

 certain number of their names he will have become fairly 

 familiar. His attention will have been drawn to inscriptions 

 on altars and on coins, and it will now be strange if his 

 appetite be not whetted for some acquaintance with the lan- 

 guages which those people spoke. 



At this stage let the young scholar be enlightened to see 



