7 APRIL 1877, Page 15

DIGGING PARTIES.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—Young Oxford and young Cambridge athletes are now doubtless beginning to make plans for the "Long." With Dr. Schliemann's discoveries before us and Ruskin's practical teaching in our ears, why should not a band of treasure-diggers place themselves under the guidance of the Doctor, and go dig in Mycenw, or wherever else the explorer may require their services? Some lecturer, learned in the classics, might accompany them, and while they dig, he might prepare lectures to be delivered in the morning or evening on the antiquities which they brought to