be cultivated, are we, in these days of multifarious reading, and of countless distracting affairs, fair judges of the perfection to which the invention and the memory combined may attain in a simpler age, and among a more single minded people?--Quarterly Review, _l. c.,_ p. 143, sqq. Heeren steers between the two opinions, observing that, "The Dschungariade of the Calmucks is said to surpass the poems of Homer in length, as much as it stands beneath them in merit, and yet it exists only in the memory of a people which is not unacquainted with writing. But the songs of a nation are probably the last things which are committed to writing, for the very reason that they are remembered."-- _Ancient Greece._ p. 100. 26 Vol. II p. 198, sqq. 27 Quarterly Review, _l. c.,_ p. 131 sq. 28 Betrachtungen uber die Ilias. Berol. 1841. See Grote, p. 204. Notes and Queries, vol. v. p. 221. 29 Prolegg. pp. xxxii., xxxvi., &c. 30 Vol. ii. p. 214 sqq. 31 "Who," says Cicero, de Orat. iii. 34, "was more learned in that age, or whose eloquence is reported to have been more perfected by literature than that of Peisistratus, who is said first to have disposed the books of Homer in the order in which we now have them?" Compare Wolf's Prolegomena, Section 33 32 "The first book, together with the eighth, and the books from the eleventh to the twenty-second inclusive, seems to form the primary organization of the poem, then properly an Achilleis."--Grote, vol. ii. p. 235 33 K. R. H. Mackenzie, Notes and Queries, p. 222 sqq. 34 See his Epistle to Raphelingius, in Schroeder's edition, 4to., Delphis, 1728. 35 Ancient Greece, p. 101. 36 The best description of this monument will be found in Vaux's "Antiquities of the British Museum," p. 198 sq. The monument itself (Towneley Sculptures, No. 123) is well known. 37 C