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his "Four Seasons" on the Brühl Terrace at Dresden, his Schiller statue at Vienna, his Maximilian statue at Trieste, and his War Memorial at Hamburg, not to mention other creations, which were all surpassed and crowned by the Grand National Monument, on the edge of the Niederwald, overlooking the Rhine. This was unveiled by the Emperor William, Sept. 28, 1883.

SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN, Prince of. (See Christian, Prince.)

SCHLIEMANN, Dr. Heinrich, F.S.A., was born at Ankershagen in Mecklenburg, in 1822, being the son of a Lutheran pastor, who inspired him at an early age with an enthusiastic admiration of the heroes of ancient Greece, whose exploits have been immortalised by Homer. On his mother's death, which occurred when he was nine years old, he went to live with his uncle, a clergyman of Kalkhorst, where he remained two years. When the lad was fourteen years old, the elder Schliemann lost his parish, became miserably poor, and could no longer pay for his son's schooling. The result was that young Schliemann had to enter a grocer's shop in the little town of Fürstenburg, instead of following a career of letters, for which he felt a strong inclination, but he always preserved for the glories of antiquity the same love which he showed in his early infancy. In this shop he passed five and a half years of his life, occupied in selling herrings, butter, brandy, milk, and salt, in grinding potatoes for the distillery, and in other similar pursuits. He only came in contact with the lower classes of society, and as he was forced to work from five in the morning until eleven at night, he rapidly forgot the little learning he had previously acquired. At last, through the mediation of friends, he obtained a place as correspondent and bookkeeper in the Amsterdam firm of Messrs. B. H. Schroeder & Co., who engaged him with a salary of 600 florins, which, seeing his zeal, they shortly afterwards raised to 1000. In 1846 he was sent to St. Petersburg by his firm as their local agent, and a year later he established himself in business there on his own account. In the course of his busy life he has visited most parts of Europe and America, and has learned many languages, including Russian, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, ancient and modern Greek, and Arabic. Having amassed a fortune, he commenced his archaeological investigations and excavations in the East, and recorded the results in a work written in French in 1869, and entitled "Ithaque, Le Péloponèse, Troie. Recherches Archéologiques." Previously he had published in the same language, "La Chine et le Japon au temps présent" (1867). In 1874 he published "Troy and its Remains," which contains a full account of the researches and discoveries made by him at Hissarlik, the site of ancient Troy, and in the Trojan Plain. In Feb., 1874, he obtained permission from the Greek Government to excavate Mycenæ, where, in 1877, he discovered the five royal tombs which local tradition pointed out to Pausanias as those of Agamemnon and his companions, who were murdered by Ægisthus. The treasures of gold and silver brought to light denote great artistic perfection, and demonstrate the existence of a school of domestic artists entirely independent of oriental influence. Coming now to England, Dr. Schliemann met with a most flattering reception. He was elected an honorary member of the Grocer's Company, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and of the Archæological Institute. Many of the antiquities discovered by Dr. Schlie-