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 Troad, which I wrote shortly after a journey to the Orient.

In my preparation of this volume Mr. Gilbert Campbell Scoggin, my former pupil, and now a teacher of some years' experience, has been closely associated, and it is an especial pleasure to me, as his old teacher, to connect his name with mine on the title-page.

Mycenaeology is a little over a quarter of a century old. It was in 1876 that Dr. Schliemann unearthed the treasures from the royal graves at Mycenae and gave the world the first glimpse of that ancient civilization which has since been shown to have extended over the mainland of Hellas and the isles of the south Aegean—a civilization whose type is the same, however widely distant the localities where remains are found, whether in Crete or Thessaly, in Rhodes or Argolis, in Cyprus or Boeotia. It was for him to present the problem which is daily assuming vaster proportions. It will be for others to solve it. But the solution is not now. Theories advanced yesterday are to-day set aside. It is only when all the evidence has been gathered in that the great questions connected with Mycenaean culture can be finally settled. It is almost providential that Dörpfeld's Troy, with its imported Mycenaean pottery, should remain buried until the very time when the new science could pronounce verdict upon it.