17 FEBRUARY 1877, Page 3

Dr. Schliemann, in a new tomb at Myceuw, has discovered

a ring containing an intaglio containing so beautiful a representa- tion of a group of women near a palm-tree by the sea, and the sun and a crescent moon rising over it, that the moment he saw it he exclaimed that Homer must certainly have seen such a ring, before he described the wonders wrought by Hephaestus on the shield of Achilles. " On it he represented the earth and the heavens and the sea, and the unwearied sun, and the full-orbed moon, and all the constellations with which the heavens have crowned themselves." Dr. Schliemanu feels quite sure that Homer must have belonged to the Achman race.