is that side of its duty which presents to
us its characters who have written their names and their fames in fire.
No matter what may be our ideas of civilization or how high our notions
of peace, there is no one of us who has not felt his heart beat a little
bit faster and his blood course a little bit more rapidly when reading
of the daring and thrilling deeds of such men as John Paul Jones or of
Decatur or of Stewart or of Hull or of Perry or of MacDonald or of
Tatnall or of Ingram or of Cushing or of Porter or of Farragut.

The war so happily ended has added new names to the galaxy of naval
worthies. New stars are in the firmament. The records indicate that your
naval representatives have been faithful to the lesson of their
traditions, that they have been true to their history, whilst the men of
our Navy have shown that they have lost none of the skill and none of
the tact that they have inherited. But they have proven again that a
generation of men who are able to defend their title to the spurs they
inherited are proper successors to their progenitors. [Applause.]

HEINRICH SCHLIEMANN

THE BEGINNINGS OF ART

[Speech of Heinrich Schliemann at the annual banquet of the Royal
Academy, London, May 5, 1877. Sir Gilbert Scott, the eminent
architect, took the chair in the absence of Sir Frederick Grant,
the President of the Academy. In introducing Dr. Schliemann, Sir
Gilbert Scott spoke as follows: "There is one gentleman present
among us this evening who has special claims upon an expression of
our thanks. Antiquarian investigation is emphatically a subject of
our own day. More has been discovered of the substantial vestiges
of history in our own than probably in any previous age; and it
only needs the mention of the names of Champollion, Layard,
Rawlinson, and Lipsius to prove that we have in this age obtained a
genuine knowledge of the history of art as practised in all
previous ages. Not only have we obtained a correct understanding of
the arts of our own race as exemplified in our own mediaeval
antiquities, but lost buildings of antiquity such as the Egyptian
labyrinth, the palace of Nineveh, the mausoleum of Halicarnassus,
the temple and statues of Olympia, and the temple of Diana at
Ephesus have been re-discovered and disinterred. ["Hear! Hear!"]
There remained, however, one great hiatus. We knew something of