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LITE 1 LAKY TKEASl HE HOUSE.
Christian World May Again Have Access
to Ancient Hecords.
Antquarians and historians ar<
now to have for the first time sine*
the Turks took possession of Con
stantinople the opportunity for mak
ing a thorough investigation of th<
literary treasures stored away in tin
great libraries there.
The contents of the bookshelves o
the St. Sophia and palace libraries
are known, but in the cellars undei
the palace library there are manj
manuscripts in Arabic, Greek, Latir
and Eastern languages. These manuscripts
are in hopeless confusion anc
novonn with snecial aptitude fo:
UU JJti
research work has been permitted t(
examine them in recent years. Abou'
30 years ago a German dragomar
obtained permission from the sultar
to spend a week in those cellars. Ii
that time he was able to make onlj
a very superficial examination of th<
manuscripts, but his search, short a:
it was, revealed many books in Gree*
and Arabic of great value. Among
the discoveries he reported were thf
lost books of Livy, the great Romar
historian.
Among celebrated British scholars
who are planning to go to Constanti1-1?
1nnp-_hfddeE
nopie to Qeive amuu, ?.u\*
manuscripts is Sir Edwin Pears, tin
historian, who has spent many years
in Constantinople. Sir Edwin told the
Associated Press correspondent thai
at least six months would be required
for the investigation. He does nol
think the libraries have been damaged
by the Turks, who, he says, are
utterly indifferent to their value. His
only fear is that the manuscripts
will be found in a sad state as a result
of neglect.
The fine libraries of the Byzantine
empire were taken by the Turks in
1453. The greatest number of books
\ are deposited, not in St. Sophia's, as
popularly believed, but in the Imperial
palace about a quarter of a
mile from the church. Under Turkish
rule these libraries were added tc
> from time to time, the most notable
acquisition resulting from the defeat
by the Turks of the king of Ifungary,
whose collection of books was
brought to Constantinople and placed
either in St. Sophia or the palace li
Drary.
"The shelves of the palace library,"
said Sir Edwin, "have been
constantly picked over and the most
important manuscripts probably have
been stolen or destroyed. At present,
what is shown to visitors is a
room^about 30 feet long and 15 wide,
nicely fitted up with glass cases containing
books with well polished
bindings. But there is not a book
displayed which an archeologist
would consider worth having. The
cellars, however, contain hundreds
of manuscripts which have never yet
% been satisfactorily examined.
"The library in St. Sophia's also
contains many unclassified works and
it may be that they include manuscripts
of importance."
The greatest finds of manuscripts
jnade in the vicinity of Constantinople
during the last half-century
were not in the palace or St. Sophia
libraries but in local libraries be
longing to trie Greek ctiurcn. une
of these, which Sir Edwin terms the
most important theological find of
the century, was a book containing
the teachings of the Twelve Apostles,
a document frequently quoted in the
early centuries of Christian literature.
The last half of the text had
been copied and preserved, but the
complete copy was lost until about
40 years ago."
"At that time," Sir Edwin said,
"the grand old scholar, Bishop Briennius
of Xicomedia, the modern Ismid,
one of the few Greek scholars who
not only knows Greek well but is an
authority on paleography, was looking
for the epistles of St. Clement.
"In the library of the church of
the Holy Sepulchre in Constantinople
he came across a small volume entitled
simply "Saint Clement." It
contained not only the epistles of St.
Clement but the teachings of the
Twelve Apostles, lost since about
1050. Some authorities date the book
/ "
as early as 70, some as late as 120.
"Another book of equal value was
discovered in the library of St. Sophia
in about 1875, called 'The Manuscripts
of Critobolus.' This is the
only record we possess containing an
account, from the Greek side of the
siege of Constantinople. I was the
first to take advantage of this find in
my writings of the siege. The book
unearthed by Critobolus was a life
of Mahommed. It revealed how the
Greeks turned Romans to save their
skins."
Another library which Sir Edwin
plans to explore is at Mt. Athos, a
peninsula devoted to the Greek
church since 1100. It is situated between
Constantinople and Saloniki.
About 15 years ago a Greek made
some interesting discoveries there.
Sir Edwin visited it shortly after the
discovery of the teachings of the
Apostles, and learned from the li
XO BAIL TO COXFKI>K 1?ATKS.
* Colonel Springs Publishes Wire From
Lieut. Col. Roosevelt.
3 Georgetown, .May 4.?Col. Holmes
3 B. Springs, formerly of the thirtieth
. division who is the temporary chair.
man of the South Carolina organiza3
tion of the American Legion, today
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Colonel Theodore Roosevelt
f denying that it was proposed to ad3
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can war and former Union soldiers
T but not ex-Confederates. Colonel
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l This is absolutely untrue. If the
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the organizations which is to welr
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> you will do your best to stamp out
all question of sectionalism. This,
to my mind, is one of the important
. functions of the proposed organization.
We fought shoulder-to-shoulder
L in this war and in the Spanish-Ameriwar
M"v nwn forbears are mem
bers of both the G. A. R. and Conk
federate Veterans."
Beguiling Giles.
- Everything in the dear old village
seemed the same to Giles after his
- absence of four years as a prisoner of
> war in Germany. The old church, the
> village pump, ducks on the green,.
the old men smoking their pipes
while the women talked?it was so
^ restful after the treatment he had rel
ceived at the hands of the enemy.
> Suddenly he missed something.
> "Where's Hodge's other wind
millV he asked in surprise. "I can
i only see one mill, and there used to
: be two."
? The native gazed thoughtfully as
i if to verify the statement. Then he
; said, slowly:
"They pulled one down. There
; weren't enough wind for two of 'em!"
[ ?London Tit-Bits.
Real Punishment.
"Germany is going to be badly surwhpn
the allies' Deace terms
are read to her. The peace terms
are very severe?just, but very severe."
The speaker was assistant Secretary
of the Navy Roosevelt.? He went
on:
"Germany is going to feel like Rastus
Rosin, who was convicted of stealing
a hog.
* " 'Rastus,' the judge said to him,
'you are fined $5.'
" 'Jedge,' said Rastus, 'Ah'm obliged
to ve. Ah' got dat five spot right
here in mah left-hand vestpocket.'
" 'Well,' continued the judge,
'just dig down in your right-hand
vestpocket, Rastus, and see if you can
find 30 days.' "?Los Angeles Times.
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Bent.
He had tried in vain to cut through
the slice of roast beef the restaurant
waiter had served him.
"Look here, waiter," he said at
last, "I can't do anything with this
beef. Bring me something else instead."
"Sorry, sir," replied the waiter,
"but I can't take it back now?you've
bent it."?Pearson's Weekly.
So Say We AH.
"Do you understand the league of
nations propositions?"
"I think so."
"Would you mind explaining
them?"
"I'll feel better if I don't try. I
only said I think I understand.
Whenever I get to explaining I have
my doubts about whether I do or
not."?Washington Star.
"Business as Usual."
A sorry blow has been dealt at
those who maintain we are not a
commercial race. "You gave me
prussic acid in mistake for quinine
this morning," a man told the chemist
the other day. >.
"Is that so?" said the chemist;
11 "then you owe me another two
pence."?Punch.
New line of novels at The Herald
Book Store. 1918 and 1919 copyi
rights at 75c per volume. Books ex,
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brarian that none of the books were
properly classified.
St. Athos escaped molestation by
the Turks. The only time the li
brary was violated was in 1824 when
a large number of manuscripts were
i cut up for haversacks for Turkish
soldiers.
i Monks only live there, nothing
! feminine being allowed on the place,
not even hens, cows or mares.
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