In the first part of the paper the question was examined, whether the art of writing was known and practised at the time in which Homer is supposed to have lived? It was found that there was no evidence, either in the Iliad or Odyssey, that it was practised at that time; but that these poems must have been transmitted orally by the Bards for a period of nearly three centuries. It was then considered whether poems of such a length as the Iliad and Odyssey could have been composed and committed to memory by one man; and it was shewn, from several examples, that there was no impossibility in the matter.