BOOK REVIEW
Treasure Found.
f«i Ancient Sites
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The Oold of Troy by Robert
Psyne. Published by Funk & Wag
a dis Company.. A Book-of-the
&onth selections.
About thirty-five years ago an
English boy attending St. Paul’s
Softool, tn London, came across an
account of -the legendary treasure
during the 70s and ’80s of
ofoe last century on the probable
site of Troy and Mycenae by an
eccentric millionaire. The boy—
Robert Payne—was entranced not
»*iy with the buried cities of the
ancient Aegean world but with
the career of the amateur archae
ologist Heinrich Schliemaim, who
discovered them. Only a year or
tyro ago, however, after coming
across a newly published German
edition of much of Schliemann’s
voluminous correspondence, was
Payne inspired to write -his bio
graphy. Together with another
biography (Elizabeth the Great,
by Elizabeth Jenkins) The Gold of
Troy, the story of Heihrfeh Schlie
faann and the buried n Cities of
ancient Greece, is being distribu
ted as a Double Selection for
March by the Book^jf-th e-Month
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•t "■ in Germany, Schlicmanm
Vu . uicei to leave sohooi in his
isi- y teens and go to work as a
grocer's helper. A drunken miller
who in his cups used to declaim
Homer was Heinrich's introduc
tion to what was to become the
absorbing passion of to life, in
those days, however, as he listened
to the miller, he :only knew that
the sonorous passages struck a
responsive chord in his soul. He
had no time for Greek. He was
ambitious for wealth. He saved
enough, finally, to leave the gro
cer’s, and after learning rudimen
tary bookkeeping he found a
clerk’s job, first in Hamburg,
later in Amsterdam. Between the
ages of 20 and 24 he taught him
self seven languages: French,
Spanish, Portuguese, English,
Italian. Dutch and Russian.
By the time he was 25 he had
established himself in St. Peters
burg, the capital city of Russia,
as chief representative of one of
the greatest trading firms on
earth. And from then on, there
was little that Heinrich touched
that didn’t turn to gold. But he
was restless, dissatisfied, unful
filled. It was then that he turned
to the study of Greek and began
to devour the Illiad and Odyssey,
to dream endlessly of Priam’s
Troy and the golden city of My
cenae. Bitterly unhappy with his
cold and haughty wife, Schlie
mann finally left Russia for good,
and after travelling the world
over settled down in Athens. It
was from there that he set forth,
with the Illiad as his literal guide,
to find the treasure of Troy and
Mycenae. In his untrained eager
ness he dug below the site of
Homer’s Troy, hut discovered a
treasure in gold that electrified
the world# Again in Mycenae he
found the remains of a civiliza
tion far more ancient than that
celebrated by Homer, and again
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It would: undoubtedly please
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never had Sc hi ie Mann’s obsessive
lust for gold, like him he is a
wanderer, a linguist and a man
with a limitless capacity and en
thusiasm for his chosen career.
Though not yet 50 years of age,
Payne is the author of over fifty
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Drive For Funds
Sunday, March 21
A group of volunteers is being
oragnized to call cai all the homes
in Kodiak, Sunday March 21, seek
ing funds for the American Heart
Association. March 21 has been
designated as Heart Sunday.
Mrs. Antjie Huer is in charge
of the drive, which is being spon
sored by the Business and Profes
sional Women’s Club.
The Association, together with
the National Heart Institute, has
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been waging a ten year fight
against heart and blood vessel
diseases. The Institute is a gov
ernment agency, established by
act of Congress ds a unit of the
Public Health Service.
Through the cooperative efforts
of the two agencies, scientific
research in the cardiovascular
field has been greatly expanded
and effective programs of public
and professional education and
community services for heart pa
tients have been stablished.
NOTICE
The Order of Eastern Star will
hold a card party at the Masonic
Temple on Saturday, March 21 at
8 pm. Canasta, pinochle and
bridge will be played. Masons,
Eastern Star and their friends are
invited. Donation: $1.00 per per
son. 14-ly
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will find notices in them on
March 20, informing them that
another quarter’s rental must be
paid before the end of March.
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