ned by life to a living realization of the Divine Order. This
division consists of four Books (XIII-XVI). The second division
transfers the scene from country to town, from hut to palace. Ulysses
in disguise will witness personally the full course of the wrong of the
suitors, against his property, his family, his state, and against the
Gods. Then he becomes the minister of the world-justice which he has
already seen in Hades. Finally he harmonizes the distracted
institutional life of his country and the poem ends. This second
division embraces the last eight Books, and has its own special stages
in its movement.

_Survey of Books Thirteenth to Sixteenth._ In this portion we are to
witness the leading transition of the poem, that of Ulysses and
Telemachus to Ithaca, the transition from the long and elaborate
preparation for the act to the act itself, which is the supreme one of
man, that of asserting and realizing the Divine Order. In these four
Books is the gathering of the chosen forces into one spot and into one
purpose--which forces have been hitherto separately developed; here it
is that we behold the practical preliminary movement for destroying the
Suitors. Hence arises the feeling which most readers express on a
sympathetic perusal, that these four Books of the Ithakeiad, which is
the name already given to the present division of the Odyssey, have
enough in common to cause them to be grouped together in an organic
survey of the poem. They have, first of all, unity of locality--the hut
of the swineherd--to which, round which, and from which their incidents
move. To be sure there is a glance at the enemy, the Suitors, who are
at a different point; but even this glance serves to emphasize the
setting common to these four Books, which is the abode of Eumaeus. Very
humble it is, but it stands in every way as the contrast to the palace.

This unity of place naturally suggests unity of action as to what is
going on in that place. All the forces in opposition to the Suitors are
secretly gathering there and organizing. It is the center of attraction
which is drawing out of the universe every atom of congenial energy for
punishing the transgressors. It has brought Ulysses from Phaeacia,
Telemachus from Sparta, and possesses already the faithful Eumaeus in
its own right. This is the fortress, and these are the three men who
make the attacking army. They are now getting themselves together. All
three have passed through a g