3 APRIL 1875, Page 17

SCHLIEMANN'S "TROY."

Ere THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—Your correspondent "A. D." is right. I should not have stated that the epithet rsvodAesoS was reserved by Homer for Hera. It is generally applied to her, but in the Iliad (iii., 121) I find it applied to Helen, and in Books vi. and xxiv. to Andromache. The last-named book, however, like the Odyssey, which it in many points resembles, is with good reason attributed by some critics to a considerably later period than that of the rest of the