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Show ncitii'i) i.iriiuitr Tiiuisuiiix A1111TUT..E, Hie famous Urek phll-osopiierwasboru phll-osopiierwasboru about Ml II. C. He was for a time Iho -i It of I'lito, nud afterwards the Instructor of AloiauJcr tho (treat. He wrote works 011 all topics,' many of which aro lost. He died about .1:2 11. C. A short time ago the learned world of lUiroiie-was agreeably astonished by tho discovery of ono of Aristotle's long lost works. This wa no other than Iho history of tha early Constitution of Alliens. To the modern scholirthl Is a work or Inosllmihlo value. It will form n key to tha Hist organized democracy which ever existed. The finding of this book has stimulated a deslru lor further euercli after burled literary treasure. Tho London Xjhu-tator Xjhu-tator favor the organization of a spee Isl leaguo for srarihlng putjoxs, this league to be composed uf the acliolars and lullllonalrv ot Kiiropo and Amerlci. It I the opinion or scholars Hut In Contaiitliioplu Ilea hulled literary treavurea which would surprlsu Iho world by their worth, If rovealel. It Is well known that In family llbnrlrs in that city am liuok the own-irs own-irs uf which know nothing whatever what-ever about. The old families were Brent 1 urcliasrrr, and whatever I they Uught Ihey never sold, ! ao that these tre-asurc must still exist. Inourdiy.lt mty be posslblatonver I coma the antipathy of thu Turk lo (llieoiir exploration In bis libraries. It Is also known that llime contain east libraries the content of which arunbsolutrly unknown even to the librarians or their custodlana. The contents of tho famous Vatican library have never Iron fully classified. In that nre work from errry country lu the worll.nud In ctlptuuJeclpherable ly modern scholirs. Hut It I to i:)it that tho modern searcher after hidden tore looks with devotional eye. There lie ex!cts to fin I tho wonderful treasures of tho ancient world Btoaklng 011 ltd subject sub-ject tho Now York U'orM sa : "I'gjpt was oniM a collection of lller-ury lller-ury treisur.-t what llypt got It kept, au J nothing doea' lu the elltti etn nf Ibat oountry. Why should not othe r lot books lie r mil llu tho country whleh has yielded up IhU one, If all the possible ro-Mltori-orsiiclitnaurushesiitrrhlnt(ly explore.lt Why should not letter bo found there written from Palestine at the tlmo uf Chrlit, rulleelliig Ih thought of theesrly I'hrUtlsns and of those opposed to them and Nettling erplotlng 1! ,uhta to tho autlqulty aud origin of disputed beliefs? Hgypt 1 rwt know 11 to enncoal any of these things, but neither was It suspected llml she hsld In l-ondsge this Arl'totht uiauuserlpt till ll was disco! dis-co! ered, foarchla now easy In llgypt. Ills leu no but not Impossible In Constantinople, where must eilst still every treasure of learning hoarded there when the city wa tho capital of tho Hastern Kmplre, except such as wero carried awny In tho illgbt before lit Turks or dostroyml by the Turk after the rlly foil Into their hands. The HuttAii' library has boon ao Jealously Jealous-ly gnardod against prjdng eye that Its very oxlstenco Is by many deemed a myth. What treasures aro In It? That question must 1m askeil with gold If au ansnerlstolHi lis!, but why should not tho gold Lo forthcoming for such an ob Jeetf" In Hpalu and Morocco there must till exist treasures of this kind. What a revelation It would bo to find koine thing written lu the old l'lucnlclan tongue, fonu'lhlni; relating to the constitution con-stitution or Carthage, or lo tlio colonics colon-ics of the oil Iberian peninsula. y all mollis, rich meu give yourald, and scholar will be found to 1 roserute tho work. Also, you men of religion, give our prayer and your fulth, ami lm-I lm-I lore divine nld, that ttlll further trroa, urea may lai revealed. |
