HOMER’S BIRTH PLACE.

Evening Star, Issue 9773, 1 August 1895, Page 4

HOMER’S BIRTH PLACE.

Mr Lang says, in ‘Longman’s Magazine,’ that he has been reading, in an old Scotch book on ‘ Scotticisms,’ an exercise, an account of the Trojan war written iu Scotticisms and offered to the reader for correction. Upon this Mr Lang avers that bis good right hand wrote automatically, involuntarily, the opening of a work on the life of Homer, which he fancies may interest Mr Henry Cabot Lodge and Professor Brander Matthews. The fragment is as follows :—“ Hottter was considerable of a poet. The ‘lliad’ aud ‘ Odysseyare reckoned the trust powerful exhibits of his genius, but some pieces attributed to him are claimed to be bogus. It is not known where Homer was born. The Chians claim that he belonged there, but they do not allege that he lived in Chios all the time. A cave is shown where he cultivated the Muses, nights, and in the neighborhood a temple has been dona’ed to the township. It is also claimed that Homer taught school, but he never really went back on poetry. Back of Homer’s time nob any too much is known about the poets of Greece. Homer was considerable of a traveller. Just when he died is not certain, but several cities claim to possess his casket. ”