A HOMERIC COURTSHIP.
ONE of the oddest stories of courtship is that related by Dr. SchUemann respecting his own. It is now twelve years, he says" since he first met his wife in the house of her parents in Athens. In the course of conversation he made an astonishing discovery. When the talk turned on the Iliad, the eigbteen-year-old girl recited for him a long piece from the poem with literal accuracy. The two were soon absorbed in the subject, and at the close of the conversation he said to her, " Next Thursday will be our wedding-day." And on that day they were married. He adds the satisfactory information that during their married life they have not had a single falling-out—not even over Agamemnon and his sister. The only dispute they ever had was once when they had different ideas about the reading of a pasnge in Homer,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6255, 3 December 1881, Page 7
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148A HOMERIC COURTSHIP. New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6255, 3 December 1881, Page 7
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