Excerpt from Art and Humanity in Homer The present volume appeals, however, especially, to thebgeneral public or, rather, to those earnest men and women who wish a perfectly simple and readable introduction to the chief masterpieces of ancient litera ture. Perhaps it should contain more fre quent references to works of archaic art. These are, however, rarely direct illustra tions to Homer. Archaeology, too, is so popular just now that one small volume of mere literary and aesthetic criticism may perhaps claim toleration. Moreover, the closing essay of the present series is, in tone at least, if not in substance, a palinode to Archaiologia! This paper, as is elsewhere explained, has detached itself from the open ing essay. Most of the papers appeared in an earlier form as magazine articles in the Atlantic Monthly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.